Chipping Norton trainer Charlie Longsdon’s 500-mile round trip to Carlisle paid off with Time For Spring and Cross Of Honour giving him a double yesterday.

Time For Spring (7-4) made a winning debut over fences under Felix de Giles in a novices’ chase.

And De Giles was also in the saddle as Cross Of Honour (7-2) romped home by six lengths in a National Hunt Flat Race.