HERECOMESTANLEY posted his third win this season for Milton Harris's Edgcote stables, near Banbury, with a game success at Fakenham yesterday.

The seven-year-old, a winner at the Norfolk course and at Uttoxeter in October, put up his best effort to date to claim the East Anglia Handicap Chase by a neck from Iris Royal in the hands of Dave Crosse.

It was the second winner in less than a week that Harris had sent out for owner Christopher Shankland following Moonlit Harbour's victory at Market Rasen last Thursday.

It provided Harris with a timely boost after the news that he is set to lose two winners - Pseudonym in a Flat handicap at Warwick in June and Leopold in a handicap chase at Stratford in July - after they tested positive for morphine.

The Horseracing Regulatory Authority revealed that Harris's two horses along with ones trained by Wantage handler Henry Candy, Ian McInnes, Matt Sheppard and Kate Walton, are set to be disqualified when their cases come before the HRA's disciplinary panel sits on Thursday, December 14.

It comes after the horses consumed contaminated feed produced by leading suppliers Dodson & Horrell.

No blame is being attached to the trainers, with the HRA stressing that nothing sinister has taken place.