8:33pm Monday 8th February 2010
Sarando, from Paul Webber’s Mollington yard, near Banbury, gave a new syndicate their first winner at Lingfield on Monday – and sparked Cheltenham Festival dreams.
The five-year-old romped home by 13 lengths from Riff in a novices’ hurdle over an extended two miles and three furlongs under Liam Treadwell to the delight of West Sussex-based partnership Eight Men & A Hoss.
The victory came on the back of a narrow defeat to Alan King’s well-regarded Salden Licht at Plumpton last month.
And Nicholas Sercombe, who put the syndicate together, said: “The run at Plumpton was a great surprise and he has made a lot of improvement.
“Liam Treadwell felt he would get a bit further. He may well end up somewhere in March, probably the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys race.
“It's our first ever horse, so not a bad start.”
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