ASTON Rowant owner-trainer Alan Hill and his jockey son, Joe, stole the show with a treble at the Kimblewick Hunt meeting at Kingston Blount.

Supreme Danehill provided the centrepiece of the hat-trick by landing the Philip Scouller Memorial Southern Grand National Mixed Open for the second successive year.

Joe Hill gave the nine-year-old, winner of the ‘classic’ Lord Ashton Of Hyde’s Cup in January, an excellent ride in the four-mile marathon, making all the running before repelling the persistent challenge of Warden Hill by a neck.

He said: “It’s fantastic to win the race for the second year in a row. It’s a great effort from dad to get him back here again.

“In his last race at Leicester we might have got a bit greedy. It was only 12 days after he had a hard race when he unseated and he ran flat.

“We decided to come to Kingston and it’s brilliant that the plan has come off.”

The Hills’ treble was kick-started by Pride Of Parish, who was sent into the lead going to the fifth-last in the Confined Hunts Race, before holding off Merrydown Vintage by four lengths.

Alan Hill said: “He is a lucky horse to be alive. He broke his pelvis about this time a year ago and we didn’t know whether we would have to put him down or not.

“It is down to a lot of work by everyone that he is here today. It was 50-50 with him.

“He stayed in the stable for three months and then had three months on the walker and we built it up.”

Changeofluck completed the hat-trick with a two-and-a-half-lengths verdict over Distant Rain in the Open Maiden, sponsored by NorCal Vets of Thame.

Touted as a horse to follow first-time out by the trainer, the nine-year-old was making his debut between the flags after moving across to Hill’s string following a year on the sidelines after picking up a bug while in his wife Lawney’s National Hunt yard.

Oxford Brookes University student Charlie Dee, from Gloucestershire, rode his first ever winner on Creepy in the PPORA Club Members Race for Novice Riders.

The meeting was preceded by the Print Concern Invitation Challenge Charity Race over six furlongs, which was won by Stow Corner, ridden by Rachel Geary, from East Lockinge, near Wantage.

Geary stables the 14-year-old at Geoffrey Deacon’s Compton yard

The race raised £1,250 for the Air Ambulance.