There is nothing Yorkshire’s Robert Walker likes better than to win a major title on home turf and he did just that a fortnight ago when the former Dublin in-hand supreme Caesars Palace claimed the hunter championship at Bramham International Horse Trials.

Jill Day’s middleweight winner Caesars Palace has now extended his winning run to 10 wins in all, the Emperor Augustus five-year-old remaining unbeaten over two seasons throughout his novice and open classes.