Tony McCoy took Newton Abbot by storm yesterday afternoon when booting home a second career five-timer at odds of 120 to 1. The reigning champion jockey was successful aboard the Martin Pipe-trained quartet Commanche Creek, Couchant, Totally Yours and Pond House plus Nashaat from the Karl Burke stable .

"My other five-timer was at Uttoxeter at the end of last season and it's great to have five winners in an afternoon as it makes all the hard work worthwhile," commented an elated McCoy.

And it could well have been a record-breaking six-timer for McCoy if Galatasori Jane had not come down at the final fence of the Grosvenor Casino Plymouth Novices' Chase when disputing the lead.

But McCoy played down the fall saying: "She fell a bit tired and I'm not sure she would have won. It was a case of putting in a short one and getting beat or going long and trying to win, however she didn't get it right."

Commanche Creek has now rattled off three wins since joining the Pipe team and stayed on well to take the Newton Abbot Racecourse Car Boots Sales Handicap Hurdle by 11 lengths from Persian Mystic. "I rode him myself up our five furlong gallop twice yesterday to put the finishing touches to him," remarked Pipe.