PADDY Brennan was the man to follow at Cheltenham and he combined with two trainers for a treble yesterday. The pick of the three might have been the middle leg, Tom George’s Bun Doran, who ran out an easy winner of the BetVictor Handicap Chase.

Well backed during the day, the seven-year-old was given a handy lead by Rock On Rocky but was clearly travelling the better as they started down the hill. Pushed clear on the turn for home, he pinged the second last and was clear at the last, galloping on strongly to beat Movie Legend by eight lengths, with Peppay Le Pugh back in third.

Bun Doran, a good second here on his reappearance last season, ran as if further success may be just around the corner.

“I don’t often come into a race thinking I’m on a certainty but he did a terrific piece of work the other day and Tom has done a fine job with him,” Brennan enthused. “The yard is in cracking form and long may it continue.”

RED CHILLY TOO HOT

The jockey’s first winner did the layers a major favour as he produced 33/1 shot Red Hot Chilly to win the Swanee River Supports Countrywide Alliance Novices’ Handicap Hurdle for the in-form Fergal O’Brien team.

Kept wide as they started down the hill, Red Hot Chilly led two out and readily drew clear, leaving a modest fourth at Wincanton well behind him. Bottom-weight My Brother finished well to be beaten just over a length, with Voodoo Doll and Guido Reni close up.

Paul Flynn’s Try Again, also entered for the Salmon Spray at Fontwell today, but allowed to take his chance here, ran a cracker in fifth.

TOO COOL

Brennan rounded off a brilliant day when joining forces with O’Brien again on 7/2 shot Coolanly, who proved much too good for Nicky Henderson’s slightly disappointing favourite Pym in the closing Grade 2 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle.

A very fair price on his excellent fifth in a Grade 1 at Aintree in the spring but a faller in the Persian War at Chepstow recently, Coolanly cleared away on the run-in and looks a likely prospect for the festival in March.

Brennan told Racing UK: “We were so disappointed to fall in the Persian War. He did it very well today and he could be very good. There is a two-and-a-half-mile Grade 1 for him at Newbury (Challow Hurdle) and that could be the race for him.

“Anytime you ride just one winner here is special. To ride three, it’s what it’s all about.”