“It must be a day where I run my horses that are hard to train, because he’s had two and a half years off the track. Murphy said: “He gave me my biggest career win at the time. It was the former Ascot Grade Three winner’s first race since that day back in December 2017. Half an hour later, Sangha River doubled up at 6-4 in division two as the impressive near 10-length victor on only his third appearance under rules at the age of seven.īut the success of another fragile yet very talented performer was doubtless most rewarding of all for Murphy when Hunters Call produced a classy turn of foot under Richard Johnson to take the Handicap Hurdle by almost five lengths at 13-2.
Murphy’s winning spree began with odds-on favourite Enemy Coast Ahead’s hard-fought win in division one of the Offering Retail Solutions Novices’ Hurdle. “It’s been an unbelievable day – four runners, four winners. “The limelight is going to be on me today, but it should be on Southwell – they’ve had owners here and they’ve done a great job of the ground. “I said on the way here that if I had a winner I’d be delighted,” he said, as he reflected on his feat. Yet by race eight, Murphy was the one who had made by far the most powerful signal of intent for the season ahead.
Olly Murphy got his season off to a flying start on WednesdayĮleven-time champion Nicholls made the perfect start – thanks to 2-1 favourite Nineohtwooneoh and jockey Harry Cobden – following the interruption of the National Hunt fixture list which began back in March during the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. There was also a double on the nine-race card for Ben Pauling, courtesy of handicap hurdlers Tel’Art and Sebastian Beach. Nicholls’ Nineohtwooneoh was the first winner of the belated campaign, scoring emphatically on his fencing debut in the Sign Solutions Nottingham Novices’ Handicap Chase.īut it was Murphy who went on to enjoy the most memorable return to action – with the victory of Hunters Call in the feature, on his first start for more than 900 days, the headline act in the Warwickshire trainer’s 136-1 haul. Olly Murphy’s four-timer outdid champion trainer Paul Nicholls as both made a flying start on the resumption of British jumps racing at Southwell.
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