ANDREW Thornton, grand old man of the weigh-room at 44, finally made it to a career total of 1,000 winners when completing a double at Wincanton on St Stephen’s Day.

Over the jumps it matters little how the triumphs come along and Seamus Mullins’ Kentford Myth, who brought up the thousand, would not have won the mares’ novice chase but for the falls of the first and second favourites. Thornton had already moved on to 999 on the same trainer’s Somchine in the two-mile handicap chase.