FEATURE jumps racing returned to Warrnambool on Saturday with A$255,000 on offer across four jumps races.

Johnny Allen went out on Try Four in the feature $100,000 Kevin Lafferty Hurdle as the $1.85 favourite but it was the locally-trained jumper, British-bred Hornets’ Nest who provided the ‘spoiler alert’ to take out the 3,236 metre feature. Ridden by Paul Hamblin for trainer James McNamara, Hornets’ Nest, a nine-year-old High Chaparral gelding, was coming off a hurdle win at Casterton seven days earlier to make all the running over the 11 hurdles before kicking clear in the straight to win by two lengths from Unique Assassin with Try Four in third.