AFTER picking up the 2005/2006 National Hunt Gentleman Amateur Jockey Championship title at Stratford seven days earlier, Tom O'Brien recorded a double in the professional ranks at sun-kissed Worcester Races on Saturday.

Ladies Day was blessed with glorious sunshine and huge crowds swarmed into Pitchcroft to watch an excellent afternoon's racing.

A big screen also enabled racegoers to watch the Derby live from Epsom and, while Sir Percy and jockey Martin Dwyer were the stars on the Downs, it was O'Brien who was the pick of the jockeys at Worcester.

The youngster rode Cameron Bridge to victory in the Orchid Transport Handicap Steeplechase for Minehead trainer Philip Hobbs and then cantered to victory on Grand Slam Hero in the BackUp Staff Maiden Hurdle for Peter Bowen.

Joe Tizzard steered Eljay's Boy to the post in the opening Novices' Handicap Steeplechase, while Jonjo O'Neill and Tony McCoy blazed a winning trail from the flag in the Andrew Grant Beginners' Steeple Chase as Briscoe Place romped home with plenty to spare.

A second Cotswold-based trainer, Nigel Twiston-Davies, saw his sole runner of the afternoon, Cois Na Tine Eile, prevail in the Derby Day Novices' Handicap Hurdle before O'Brien claimed his first win in the pro ranks on Cameron Bridge.

Sandwiched in between his two winners, Moon Catcher followed up a win at Stratford the previous weekend when edging out Wembury Point by a head in the day's most thrilling finish to win the Valerie Lewis Memorial Handicap Hurdle.

After O'Brien had stormed clear on Grand Slam Hero for Welshman Bowen, Cava Bien took the last -- the Backup Staff Maiden Hurdle -- after a tussle from the last with favourite Painter Man.

It was jockey Willie McCarthy who found more in his ride than McCoy did on David Pipe's favourite and it was Brendan Llewellyn who was the celebrating trainer at the end of a superb afternoon's action.

Results

1.55: 5 Eljay's Boy J Tizzard 3-1 Fav, 12 Be Telling Paul Moloney 9-2, 7 Cullian D Crosse 9-1, 12 ran, non-runners: 8,10.

2.25: 1 Briscoe Place A P Mccoy 7-2, 9 Penneyrose Bay M Foley 11-10 Fav, 6 Ri Na Realta A Thornton 5-1, 6 ran, non-runners: 2,4,5,7,8.

2.55: 8 Cois Na Tine Eile M Goldstein 7-1, 9 Granite Man A P Mccoy 2-1 Fav, 13 Glide J M Maguire 10-1, 12 ran, non-runners: 7.

3.25: 4 Cameron Bridge T J O'brien 14-1, 5 Cobbet J M Maguire 9-1, 13 Sacrifice C Bolger 20-1, 11 ran, non-runners: 9,10.

4.00: 8 Moon Catcher T Scudamore 11-2, 14 Wembury Point W Hutchinson 22-1, 4 Downing Street A O'Keeffe 11-2, 11 ran, non-runners: 1,9,11.

4.40: 5 Grand Slam Hero T J O'brien 11-2, 13 Sea Map R Johnson 2-1, 12 Kanpai A P McCoy 13-8 Fav, 10 ran, non runners: 4,6,11.

5.15: 10 Cava Bien W McCarthy 11-8 Jt Fav, 11 Painter Man A P McCoy 11-8 Jt Fav, 8 Rapscallion T J Phelan 13-2, 7 ran, non- runners: 1,2,4,9,12.