Ascot Friday

THE Grade 2 Kennel Gate Hurdle (now run as the SkyBet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle Trial) has a roll of honour which includes Champion Hurdle winner Make A Stand and was won in similar front-running style by Colin Tizzard’s Master Debonair (3/1). The Yeats gelding impressed, proving too strong for the odds-on favourite Ribble Valley (Nicky Richards/Brian Hughes), conceding that highly-regarded rival 3lbs and beating him by eight lengths, with hurdling newcomer Time Flies By shaping well in third.