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Britain’s champion point-to-point trainer Tom Ellis completed an extraordinary feat when he sent out ten winners from ten runners at the weekend.
Ellis, who trains in Marton, Warwickshire with his wife, leading point-to-rider Gina Andrews, won two races at the meeting at Parham on Saturday.
On Sunday the stable had three winners at Askham Bryan College and four at Garthorpe. Ellis then rounded that off by winning a point-to-point bumper at Exeter with Clover All Over.
Gina Andrews rode four of the winners and her brother Jack, at 6ft 4ins also known as the world’s tallest jockey, rode four.
It’s not the first time Ellis has sent out ten winners - he had ten winners over a weekend February - but he has never enjoyed a 100 per cent strike rate.
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“It’s quite extraordinary really,” said Gina Andrews. “I rode two of them at Parham and another two at Askham Bryan College yesterday.
“The horses have been running really well all year, but it.’s not all been plain sailing. The horses that won were not unbeatable.
The haul took Ellis’s score to 50 for a campaign in which he is well on course to claiming his fifth national training title.
The couple’s success as G&T Racing has attracted envious comments, not all complimentary.
“We get a bit of stick about how we are dominating and apparently ruining the sport, which I think is quite unfair,” said Andrews.
They will be aiming to keep the run going up to Aintree where Andrews hopes to secure back-to-back wins over the Grand National fences in the Foxhunters Chase on Latenightpass.