Patrick Mullins records another Chart Topper on British tour

Patrick Mullins rounded off a successful two days in Yorkshire by steering Chart Topper to an impressive victory at Wetherby.

Having secured his first ever winner at Catterick aboard Jarrive De Mee on Wednesday, and later headed down the A1 to watch Leeds United beat Norwich City 2-1 at Elland Road, the record-breaking amateur stayed in West Yorkshire overnight to ride at Wetherby for the first time on Thursday

Chart Topper, trained by the rider's father Willie and owned by his mother Jackie, was an even-money favourite to land the William Hill Betting Done Properly EBF 'National Hunt’ Novices’ Hurdle, having been off the track since opening his account with a 25-length demolition job at Downpatrick in August.

In what looked a strong race for the grade, Chart Topper moved powerfully into the straight along with Jonjo and A J O’Neill’s 10-length Newbury winner Peso and the big two settled down to fight it out.

There was not much to choose between the pair jumping the second-last, but despite showing a tendency to throw one leg out to his left, Chart Topper hit the front before the final obstacle and picked up smartly on the run-in to score by four and a quarter lengths.

Mullins said: "He was impressive, wasn’t he? We thought he was going to be one of our better bumper horses once upon a time and he got injured, but he jumps fantastically well and hopefully he might live up to what we hoped he could be.

"Jonjo’s horse brought a fair level of form and we beat him well and hopefully there’s more to come.

"He’s owned by my mother, but is for sale to stay in the yard and he’s a horse that could go to the spring festivals and later on in the year he could be a Galway and Listowel horse.

"He does have a bit of a funny action and his