Ayr raid yields fourth win in two weeks for Kelso racehorse trainer Sandy Thomson

Brian Hughes rode Welonlyhavedone to victory by seven lengths in the opening 1.10pm Coral Bet £5 Get £30 New Customer Offer Chasing Excellence Beginners’ Chase at 9-2 at Ayr Racecourse on Wednesday.

That first-placed finish for the six-year-old bay gelding, owned by Dundee United director Jimmy Fyffe, over two miles and four furlongs earned prize money of £7,922.

It was his first win since undergoing wind surgery in September and switching trainer from County Meath’s Gavin Cromwell to Thomson last month and second all together from nine runs, the other having been at Galway in October 2025.

It takes Lambden stables boss Thomson’s tally of wins to just short of a handful in the space of two weeks following ones for Flying Moonlight at Musselburgh a week prior and Florida Dreams and Marty McFly at Wetherby in West Yorkshire at the end of last month, with Greg Fairley, Danny McMenamin and Hughes as jockeys respectively.

Thomson and Hughes also claimed a second place at Ayr in the 3.13pm Coral We’re Here For It Handicap Chase with 9-4 favourite Bridge Court, losing out to Patrick Wadge on Whistle Stop Tour, trained in Perth and Kinross by Lucinda Russell and Michael Scudamore, by a neck.

Hawick trainer Ewan Whillans’ Blakey Boy, ridden by Craig Nichol, was third in a field of six for that three-mile race a further four lengths back.