SPECTATORS flocked to the first meeting of the season under BHRC rules at Leominster and were treated to nine exciting races in the sunshine.

Twenty-three-year-old driver Sara Mould was in top form, clocking up a back-to-back double with her father's open handicappers, Nightingale Lass and Bon Daniel.

Connections later celebrated an impressive treble when Morfa Duke defied a 40-yard trail in the feature mile-and-a-quarter race, scorching to the head of affairs with a circuit to go, leaving a class field struggling in his wake.

This was nine-year-old Morfa Duke's third win of the season, and according to his trainer, Stafford-shire dairy farmer, Brian Mould, he has 'never run a better race'.

Local drivers Julie Bevan and Gareth Price were both delighted to open their accounts with Northern Sky and Master Chance respectively, while Leominster builder Patrick Morris continued his winning ways with Little Rose for the Hardwick family in the first division of the maiden race.

l Next fixture: Sunday at Leominster, 2 pm.