CHIPPING Norton trainer Charlie Longsdon signed off the National Hunt season by breaking through the £500,000 prize-money barrier for a third successive campaign.

Longsdon reached the milestone when Leith Hill Lad (13-2) followed up his Kempton win with a clear-cut victory at Exeter.

It led to a double for the trainer with Jet Set (7-4 favourite) opening her account over timber at Huntingdon later in the afternoon.

Longsdon enjoyed further success when Bestwork recorded his fifth win of the campaign with a runaway victory at Kempton.

It was Longsdon’s 44th winner of the season, which saw his runners earn £521,845 in prize-money.

Charlbury-based amateur rider David Maxwell capped his most successful season with a brace of winners in the final week of the campaign.

His long trip to Hexham paid off with an easy 64-lengths victory on Mendip Express for trainer Philip Hobbs in a three-mile hunters’ chase.

And three days later he piloted the Paul Nicholls-trained Port Melon to a length success over Treat Yourself in an extended two-and-a-half-mile hunters’ chase at Kempton.

It took his tally for the season to nine winners.

On the Flat, Chastleton trainer John Gallagher saddled Bahamian Sunrise to score in thrilling fashion at Epsom.

The six-year-old gelding held on to beat Shamshon by a head in a five-furlong handicap under Silvestre de Sousa