Cyrname survived a scare to win the Betdaq Pendil Novices' Chase at Kempton on Saturday.

Paul Nicholls' six-year-old had jumped immaculately but with a huge advantage coming out of the back straight, he put in another monster leap at the fourth last fence which caught Bowen by surprise and he nearly went over the horse's head.

It took Bowen a while to relocate his irons, but once he did there were no more alarms, as they coasted to victory in the Grade 2.

Sent off the 2/5 favourite, he provided Nicholls with an incredible 10th win in the race.

Bowen told ITV Racing: "It was embarrassing really, I sent him on then nearly fell off him. It was completely my fault. He jumped well the whole way but I still nearly fell off him. He jumps and goes his own speed, he doesn't go slower or much faster, you just let him get on with it."

Nicholls said: "He's brave and sometimes a bit too brave. I'm incredibly lucky to have won this 10 times with some nice horses and this is a nice horse.

"He's just starting to relax. With another summer he'll be really nice and who knows, he might win us a 10th King George one day.

"He definitely won't go to Cheltenham or Aintree, I just wouldn't mind finding one small race going right-handed somewhere. It wouldn't be the end of the world if he didn't run again."

The winner runs in the colours of Mrs Johnny De La Hey and Nicholls provided that owner with two other winners on the card - Favorito Buck's in the two and a half mile handicap chase and Danny Kirwan in the closing bumper.

Bought privately after winning a Lisronagh point-to-point for trainer Pat Doyle, Danny Kirwan looks a horse to follow on the track judged on his Kempton success from a previous winner.

PAULING WINNER

Global Citizen (5/1) came in for strong late support before the Sky Bet Dovecote Novices' Hurdle at Kempton and it was thoroughly justified.

Transferred to Ben Pauling from Jonjo O'Neill before winning at Southwell last time out, he took a major leap forward in the Grade 2.

Up there throughout, once Daryl Jacob's mount had seen off Mont Des Avaloirs, it was plain sailing.

Smart flat performer Scarlet Dragon, who was keen in the early stages, chased him home but was beaten nine lengths, with Michael's Mount third.

Pauling said: "We always thought he was decent, he's well related and he'd been impressing at home. That was impressive.

"We haven't got him in the Supreme or the Ballymore. We hadn't had him long when entries needed to be made and I just said to the owners it would be a bit too much to throw him in. He'll probably go to Aintree."

Jacob said: "He won a novice for us at Southwell and did it nicely. I told Ben he was a smart horse and then he said he was coming here, so I was delighted as we'd find out how good he was.

"I think after that performance we've got an idea of how good he is. He's very fast, very quick at his hurdles and travels well."

Pauling went on: "That was quite exciting. He jumped brilliantly. I said to Daryl to maybe try not to make it unless we had to, but we knew we wanted to go a decent gallop.

"He just put the pressure on from an early stage (which) is something we wanted to do. With a couple of smart flat horses in behind, we didn't want them to have an opportunity to get into some sort of rhythm and then be dangerous with their speed.

"We will treat him like a good horse now and we won't be rushing him back to the course. I'd say very likely (to run over two miles at Aintree). I don't see why you would want to go any further at this time."

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