HERALD RACING

KINGSTON Lisle trainer Barry Brennan is enjoying his best season since taking out a licence seven years ago.

Victories for Hope's Wishes at Plumpton and Changing The Guard at Fakenham last week saw him take his tally for the campaign to 11 winners.

Hope's Wishes has been the stable star, scoring four times with her latest success coming on top of triumphs at Stratford, Wincanton and Huntingdon.

The six-year-old mare romped home by ten lengths on this occasion under Harry Cobden in a mares' handicap hurdle over an extended two miles and a furlong.

More success followed for Brennan when Changing The Guard captured a two-mile selling hurdle by five lengths from Goal in the hands of James Banks.

Lingfield hosts the All-Weather Championships on Good Friday, and West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon's Volunteer Point is one of the leading fancies in the £150,000 fillies' and mares' conditions stakes.

The four-year-old has won her last two starts at Chelmsford City and over this course under Graham Gibbons, who is booked to ride again.

After her latest victory Channon said: "She'll need luck on the day, but I'd be very hopeful of heading there with a solid chance."

Friday also sees the Betfair Lambourn Open Day when around 25 trainers will welcome visitors to their stables.

More than 10,000 people are expected to flock to the village where the star attractions are likely to be Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Sprinter Sacre at Nicky Henderson's Seven Barrows and Grand National hero Many Clouds at Oliver Sherwood's Rhonehurst yard.