Jim Old and Carl Llewellyn's winning streak continued at Taunton yesterday afternoon when Thermal Warrior took the Stephen Little And Dick Reynolds Bookmakers Handicap Chase.

The duo followed up their Huntingdon treble on Wednesday after the 10-year-old just held off the renewed rally of Top Javalin by a fast-diminishing neck in the stamina-sapping four-and-a-quarter-mile contest, the second-longest in the racing calendar.