Two sparkling trebles brightened up a damp day at Sedgefield with George Moore grabbing the training headlines at combined odds of over 98-1 and providing 5lb claimer Niall Hannity with two legs of his own 161-1 three-timer.
Moore kicked off proceedings by saddling former invalid Finnure (7-1) to a five-length success over Tall Tale in division one of the Racing Channel Available In Pubs And Clubs Maiden Chase.
Having been off the course for over a year, the gelding returned at Leicester in December but was pulled up with a broken blood vessel.
But he showed no such problems here when, after joining issue down the far side, he put in a superb jump at the last fence under Russ Garritty to assert his authority over the runner-up.
"He was off with a tendon injury for a couple of years," said Moore.
"He broke a vessel last time but the vet told me not to worry as a lot of horses do that after a long break. He told me to work him normally for three weeks and then came over to scope him. He scoped clean and to be honest I thought he jumped well today."
Favourite backers knew their fate seven fences from home when the even money chance Brea Hill fell leaving jockey 'J P' McNamara nursing a suspected broken collar bone.
McNamara was reported to have refused the offer of hospital assistance electing instead to return home before seeking treatment.
The success of Finnure put Moore on the 13-winner mark for the season and he was relieved to quickly leave that total courtesy of King's Hussar, unlikely winner of the Racing Channel & Sport Of Kings Handicap Hurdle.
A line of five horses slightly headed by Our Kris took the second last together around seven lengths ahead of King's Hussar.
But with the final flight dolled off due to false ground, the Be My Chief gelding swallowed up the ground to deny Our Kris on the line by half a length.
"I'm pleased he's won, it's taken me off the 13 mark," said Moore of the Hannity-ridden 100-30 chance.
"But for me he couldn't win the race down the back, I thought he had too much to do."
David Parker who partnered the Howard Johnson-trained Hey Guy was stood down for two days by the stewards after the officials ruled he failed to ride out his mount for fourth place.
Parker, who reported Hey Guy gurgled down the back but admitted that he could probably have finished fourth, will be suspended on February 4th and 7th.
The Moore-Hannity partnership struck again when Poachers Run stayed on strongly to land the closing Racing Channel Available On Telewest Mares Only 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle.
The 15-8 shot was taken to the front by his 20-year-old claimer after the final flight to power to a three-and-a-half-length win over Apparently So.
Hannity hails from Downpatrick the same Northern Ireland town that produced Tony Dobbin and this is the first three-timer he has achieved.
"I've ridden 28 winners all in this country in the three years I've been here," he said.
Moore admitted to a current love affair with Sedgefield.
"I've had 15 winners this season and I'll have to check but I reckon around 10 have come here," he said.
The middle leg of Hannity's treble came when guiding Made Of Steel to victory in the Racing Channel Available On ntl Handicap Chase giving Chester-le-Street permit holder Ian Emmerson his third winner under rules.
"They've all been here, one in a hunter chase and two winners this season," he said.
Jockey Jim Crowley joined McNamara on the easy list with another broken collar bone sustained in the fall of Fortune Hopper, who came a cropper at the final fence.
Owner David Fulton swapped cold and muddy Sedgefield racecourse for a golfing trip to Spain so was not present to witness his El Salida take the £5,000-added Tote Top Of The North Novices' Hurdle.
Jimmy FitzGerald's charge was a popular winner of the two-mile-one-furlong event having been backed down to 2-1 favourite and will return to race on the Flat for the new season.
"They told me he wouldn't like the ground but the prize money for the race was good and so I thought we'd take a chance," said FitzGerald.
"He'll go back on the Flat in the spring and we'll put him out to grass for the summer."
The Racing Channel Available In Pubs And Clubs Maiden Chase went to the locally-trained Scotmail Boy from Howard Johnson's Crook yard while permit-holder Stuart Wood saddled Gem Of Holly to success in the Racing Channel - More Than Just Racing Selling Handicap Hurdle.
