Tom McGovern`s luck took a turn for the better today when the Lewes-based trainer saddled a near 86-1 treble at Plumpton.
The three-timer came via wins from Phar Less Hassle, Miners Dance and Golden Rose, the first two ridden by Tony McCoy, who was also in treble form.
McCoy never gave up on Phar Less Hassle in the Edwin Hill Handicap Chase.
Guilder was bidding for a four-timer in the event and was involved in a protracted battle with Phar Less Hassle when unseating at the second last, leaving McCoy`s mount, who had been under pressure a long way out, to come home 22 lengths clear of Native thirds so far tas no good fortune about the win of Miners Dance in the FPR Novices` Handicap Hurdle where McCoy had the rest of the field well stretched out on the final circuit to score by 25 lengths from Benick.
And McGovern`s hat-trick was completed when Richard Thornton and Golden Rose had 11 lengths to spare over Master Satchmo in the HBLB Eastbourne Handicap Hurdle.
McCoy was out of luck in the opener on 1-2 favourite Suvertica, who could never get to grips with all-the-way winner Little Bud in the Sussex Phab Novices` Claiming Hurdle.
Little Bud, ridden by Mattie Batchelor, was returned at 50-1 and came home nine lengths clear of Single Currency with the favourite trailing back in fourth.
Successful trainer Anna Newton-Smith, who was sending out the seventh winner of her four-year career, said: 'We ran her on the all-weather last week to sweeten her up. She has a mind of her own but handled this heavy ground well.'
McCoy soon made up for that reverse in the following St Andrews Day Novices` Chase on Martin Pipe`s 1-3 chance Harasarah, who made all to beat Ardfinnan by 30 lengths.
Silver Lake, partnered by Leighton Aspell and trained by Noel Chance, got home by a head from Spiritual Dancer in the Stewart Nash History of Plumpton Novices` Hurdle.
Afterwards, Chance said that his grey would not run over timber again.
'He is crying out for fences, and if I kept him over hurdles I`d get him beat,' he explained.
Chance, who was keeping up his impressive Plumpton strike rate, has the four-mile National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival as Silver Lake`s aim.
'It was 40 per cent before this race,' he said. 'It is even better now!'
Luscombe revelled in the muddy conditions to get the better of Happy Hussar by a length and a quarter in the Galleano Challenge Trophy for amateur riders.
Gino Carenza rode a good race on the gelding, owned and trained by Marlborough permit holder Peter Jones.
Jones said: 'The horse started making a noise, so he had a wind operation in the summer which has proved the making of him. He has won one race before, at Exeter in the same kind of ground that it is like out there.'
