Former Thirsk-based Sue Bramall made her trip from Co Wexford pay off when Bangabunny, partnered by Ken Whelan, won the Bill Butler Memorial Handicap Chase at Kelso yesterday. Mrs Bramall said: 'We've brought him over because he kept getting balloted out in Ireland so many times that I could scream. He deserved to win, he has been second many times and always behind a good horse.'
Brendan Powell makes his return to the saddle at Kempton Park today where he has four booked rides. The 39-year-old jockey was badly injured in a heavy fall at Newton Abbot at the beginning of November when he was knocked unconscious and suffered six broken ribs and a punctured lung.
One of the horses he will be reunited with, possibly next Saturday, is the Peter Beaumonttrained Young Kenny, on whom he won the Greenalls Grand National Trial, Midlands Grand National and Scottish Grand National last season.
