NICE PRIZE The former Oliver Sherwood-trained Brumous was crowned winner of the Retraining of Racehorses Racing to Hunting Challenge Final at Aintree.

Conditions should be ideal and he can land this at the expense of Oliver Sherwood's Brumous who looked as if he would improve for the run when winning a novice chase at Leicester.

Elsewhere on Newbury's TV card, BRUMOUS is taken to continue his upward curve with a victory in the betdirectuk.com Handicap Chase (2.25).

BRUMOUS (3.40) is strongly fancied to complete a hat-trick in the Novices' Handicap Hurdle at Market Rasen.

Oliver Sherwood breathed a sigh of relief after Brumous gave him his first winner for six weeks with victory in the gg.com Novices' Hurdle.

Racing is scheduled for Leicester where the gg.com Novices' Hurdle gives Brumous a chance to build on his debut success over timber.

In what seemed a competitive maiden event that would throw up a number of future winners, Brumous jumped like an old hand and picked up well on the run-in to score by seven lengths.

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos) The Greek master's best film in over a decade returns to the brumous , bloody terrain and Brechtian mode of The Travelling Players.

The nap hand of ex-racehorses is completed by Brumous , Prince Car and Seaniethesmuggler.

LEIGHTON Aspell enjoyed a day to remember at Folkestone yesterday as he recorded a 254-1 first and last-race double courtesy of Warningcamp and Brumous .