Jamie Codd and Gordon Elliott enjoyed a 39/1 second day double at the Cheltenham Festival with wins from Cause Of Causes (4/1) in the Cross Country Chase and Fayonagh (7/1) in the Champion Bumper.

Elliott has five winners in total after his treble yesterday and still has some big guns to fire with the likes of Empire Of Dirt, Death Duty and Outlander amongst a host of chances coming up tomorrow and on Friday.

The County Meath handler was delighted and said: “Five winners in two days? I can’t believe it. It’s incredible, we are absolutely delighted.”

In winning the Cross Country Chase, Cause Of Causes created Cheltenham Festival history by becoming only the fourth horse to win three different races in succession at the meeting emulating Flying Bolt, Bobs Worth and Vautour.

Jamie Codd has partnered the son of Dynaformer to all three of his festival wins and gave the gelding another superb ride, quickening up off the home bend to score by nine lengths from stable companion Bless The Wings.

Codd was enjoying his sixth festival winner in all and said: "Cause Of Causes has run at four Festivals - he was second in the Kim Muir, won the four-miler and came back for a Kim Muir and has now won the Cross-Country race. He is a great little horse - he is just a dinger - and he has been marvellous for my career.

"He ran here at January and had schooled well at home before, so we were quite confident but he just got a bit sticky early on that day.

"He then went to Punchestown and came here in February when the sales were on, so we had two good schooling days with him, and he schooled well yesterday and this morning. If he turned up in the same form as the last couple of Festivals, I thought that he would run a big race.

"That means a lot because I sit under John Thomas' (McNamara) peg and he was the king of the banks. It's my first win in the banks race and I am just delighted that he is looking down on us all and delighted to win it."

It didn’t look promising for Elliott and Codd when 7/1 shot Fayonagh made an awkward start to the Champion Bumper, where she was flat-footed, knocked sideways and lost at least three lengths on the field.

But Codd was patient on the six-year-old mare and though the pair were still last at the top of the hill, Fayonagh picked up impressively in the straight to collar the Margaret Mullins-trained Debuchet (10/1).

Elliott said of the start: "I wanted to run onto the track and tell Jamie to pull up, it was a mess of a start and I thought we could keep her for Punchestown or Fairyhouse or something.

"Jamie gave her a great ride - she must be tough. The start was something else. Jamie bought her and recommended she be sent to me so I’m very thankful for that.”

Codd, who works for auctioneers Tattersalls Ireland, bought Fayonagh for £64,000 at the company's Cheltenham December Sale on behalf of Edward and Maura Gittins - they had no big ambition about running in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, and were planning sending her to a race at Sandown last Saturday until Codd intervened and suggested today's race was winnable.

Elliott went on to say: “She has schooled over hurdles and she jumps brilliantly, but if she never does anything else it won't matter because she's won a Listed bumper and now a Grade One bumper. She could be a filly to run on the Flat, too, possibly at Royal Ascot."