Jackella bounced back to winning form for Aston Rowant trainer Lawney Hill with a game success at Fakenham, writes Russell Smith.

The seven-year-old, a winner at Uttoxeter in May, but pulled up with a breathing problem on his reappearance at Chepstow earlier this month, was always to the fore in a handicap chase over an extended two miles and five furlongs.

Taking up the running halfway round the second of three circuits, Christian Williams kept enough up his sleeve to hold off Leopold by two and a quarter lengths.

Alan Hill, husband of the winning trainer, said: “He got mud in his face last time and it pushed up his soft palate.

“Christian gave him a brilliant ride here.”

The curtain may have come down on the Flat turf season in this country - but Paul Cole now has his sights on prizes overseas with runners from his Whatcombe stables, near Wantage.

He is planning an enterprising raid on the United States by running Latin Tinge in the Grade 3 Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park, California, next Tuesday.

The race for two-year-old fillies is worth $100,000, and Cole is hopeful that his charge, who was a winner at Kempton in September before finishing fourth to Heliodor at Newmarket earlier this month, can make her mark.

In the meantime, he intends to run General Elliott and Seradim at Deauville in France where they are due to tackle a Listed contest and a conditions event respectively.

Looking further ahead, Eve Johnson Houghton, who trains at Blewbury, near Didcot, is planning to take her stable stalwart, Beaver Patrol, back to Dubai in January.

She is hoping will be joined by her other smart sprinter, Judd Street, who is due to be back in work this week.

Meanwhile, Johnson Hough-ton has a hurdling campaign in mind for Roodolph this winter.

“If he can take his good flat form over hurdles, we should have a lot of fun,” she said.

With the Flat stables having wound down and the local jumps yards yet to fire, it’s been a quiet week for winners, but West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon sent out Madame Hoi to score at Wolverhampton.

Tony Culhane drove the three-year-old filly home by a length and three-quarters from Welsh Opera in a six-furlong maiden.