IT'S not very often that Strat-ford doesn't provide a visit to the winners' enclosure for Tony McCoy and Richard Johnson but last weekend's Intrum Justitia meeting did just that.

The country's two leading jockeys failed to add to their impressive tally of winners as only Rodi Greene boasted a double at the two-day festival staged in glorious sunshine.

Greene's victory on 25/1 shot Some Operator in Saturday's eighth race of a busy afternoon completed a tasty double after outsider Tango Royal had taken the opener at the same price.

Johnson had a disappointing ride on the course and distance winner Ragdale Hall and another chance went begging in the sixth of the afternoon when Thyne Will Tell was withdrawn leaving another outsider Arctic Challenge to take the honours.

McCoy was an absentee on Saturday and, had it not been for a miraculous recovery on Geb-ora the previous night, the champion jockey could have been facing a longer-lay-off.

Odds-on favourite Brereton had finished a disappointing fourth in Friday's opener before McCoy looked like hitting the deck at the last in the third race of the night only to remarkably remain upright and steer Gebora to fourth spot beside Polish bred favourite Kombinacja - trained by Tom George in Slad.

McCoy's misery was heightened when Polar Champ, another former Luddington Road winner, failed to last the pace in the last as Pure Fun held off the challenge of Julie's Leader.

Welford trainer Barbara Waring will have been delighted with 100/1 chance Bronhallow's showing in Friday night's opener.

The ten-year-old's last Nati-onal Hunt win was four years ago and another furlong and Ennel Boy would have been overtaken as Ben Hitchcott gave Bronhallow a superb run.

Two others celebrating a good night were Andrew Thornton whose only ride on Our Jolly Swagman brought victory in the Intrum Justitia Handicap Steeple Chase and Milton Harris's stable girl at his Banbury yard as Pudlicott Mill won the best turned out horse.