BRIAN Hughes rode a lot of placed horses in the period under review but his sole success came at Sedgefield last Thursday week in the extended three and a quarter mile handicap chase on the 5/4 favourite Upfordebate.

Bringing up a double for owner Eamon McElligott and trainer Patrick Neville, the six-year-old Mount Nelson gelding was returning to winning ways, his bid for a hat-trick under Hughes having come undone when he was one of many who pulled up at Hexham in early October.