THE warmest day of Spring so far attracted another bumper crowd to Penshurst where the Old Surrey Burstow & West Kent Hunt held their second meeting.

Undoubtedly the surprise result of the day came in the Hiscox Final qualifier Intermediate Race when the Tindall owned Sanamour took the honours and returned at the remarkable odds of 10-1 beating the odds-on favourite Jac An Ree.

Chris Gordon kicked Sanamour to the front of the five runners with a circuit to run and with his fluent jumping won comfortably by five lengths on the line.

The Men's Open turned out to be another success for the Gorman family when their Old Kilminchy, the 11-10 favourite, easily beat the second favourite Indoux by 20 lengths.

Carryonharry showed his class once again winning the Ladies Open, while the Club Members race produced the closest finish of the meeting with Perange just getting his nose in front on the line to win by a short head.

The largest field of the day with nine runners was the Maiden race. Another Classic, ridden by Chris Gordon.

At the third fence the field was reduced to six when Cleverest fell bringing down Witherinton and Naranjita.

Another Classic took up the running with Soldershire ridden by Harriet Carroll having only her third ride close on his heels. With five fences remaining Carroll decided to take up the running and went on to win by a distance.

There will be another double header this weekend with Chiddingfold, Leaconfield and Cowdrey Hunt holding their meeting on Saturday at Parham with a six race card starting at 2pm preceded by two pony races at 10.30am.

On Monday the West Street, Tickham hold a meeting at Aldington, starting at 2pm.