Lease Lend gained his second success of the season, at Catterick on the 5th February. The jockey Richard McGrath showed great patience in the two mile three furlong handicap chase, producing Lease Lend in the closing stages to beat I'm Your Man by a length and a half.

The 7-y-o Zizal gelding battled on gamely, under hands and heels only, after Richard McGrath dropped his whip at the last. Lease Lend had a tongue-strap fitted and produced a good weight-carrying performance defying 11st 12lb.

He has been very consistent throughout his career and the victory was well deserved.