FOURTEEN hunters’ chases were staged during the same time frame, with six of these being run at Stratford last Friday evening.

Having saddled his 300th Irish point-to-point winner five days earlier, David Christie-trained and led up Jennifer O’Kane and John Hegarty’s Vaucelet to win the five-runner pointtopoint.co.uk Champion Novice Hunters Chase over three-miles, three-furlongs.