Jane Chappell-Hyam could hardly contain her excitement as Uber Cool won the feature race on Ladies Day, the final day of the Great Yarmouth Eastern Festival.

Great Yarmouth Mercury: Action from the early stages of the 3.25 at Great Yarmouth Picture: Nick ButcherAction from the early stages of the 3.25 at Great Yarmouth Picture: Nick Butcher (Image: Archant © 2018)

The trainer jumped for joy after seven-pound claiming apprentice Ray Dawson held off champion jockey Silvestre de Sousa on Elegiac to win the £20,000 Dan Hague Betting Handicap by a neck after a 14-furlong thriller.

Uber Cool won at Goodwood and Haydock earlier this season but was beaten in Royal Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes.

'After Ascot he came home with a bad cut. He had eight stitches and it has taken time to get him back, 89 days, but who's counting?' said the Newmarket-based handler.

'He may get a six-pound penalty for winning and that might get him in the Cesarewitch,' she added, believing the step up to 18 furlongs would not be an issue for the 17/2 winner.

Great Yarmouth Mercury: Hidden Message, under jockey Oisin Murphy, wins the 2.50 at Yarmouth Picture: Nick ButcherHidden Message, under jockey Oisin Murphy, wins the 2.50 at Yarmouth Picture: Nick Butcher (Image: Archant © 2018)

The day's riding honours went to Oisin Murphy. After having a winner on Tuesday and two on Wednesday, he notched a hat-trick.

He got 4/1 chance Isaan Queen home in the opening six-furlong nursery. The Archie Watson-trained filly moved through in the final furlong to beat well-backed Watchmyeverymove.

An impressive performance followed when Murphy won on the William Haggas-trained newcomer Hidden Message in the Ken Lindsay Memorial Fillies' Novice Stakes over six furlongs.

Once Murphy asked the Scat Daddy filly to lengthen, the 13/8 favourite burst clear to beat Newcastle winner Promote and Isango.

Great Yarmouth Mercury: Felix (6) wins the 2.20 British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes at Yarmouth under jockey Jamie Spence Picture: Nick ButcherFelix (6) wins the 2.20 British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes at Yarmouth under jockey Jamie Spence Picture: Nick Butcher (Image: Archant © 2018)

In the six-furlong handicap he again had to be at his best to squeeze the James Fanshawe-trained Mazzini home in a tight finish with Polybius. The 6/1 winner completed Murphy's 51/1 treble.

Trainer Lucy Wadham is a familiar figure in the Fakenham winner's enclosure with her jumpers, but her mare Potters Lady Jane took the spoils, at 13/2, under Josephine Gordon, in the fillies' 11-furlong handicap. Top jockey at the course this season, Jamie Spencer, added another win when the Luca Cumani-trained Felix took the mile novice stakes. The field went a real dawdle early and that played into the hands of 10/1 shot Felix. De Sousa finally got on the scoresheet when he won the finale, the Intu Chapelfield Handicap, on the Simon Crisford-trained Nobleman's Nest, 5/2 favourite.

Great Yarmouth Mercury: Uber Cool (7) wins the 3.25 Dan Hague Betting on the Rails Handicap Stakes Picture: Nick ButcherUber Cool (7) wins the 3.25 Dan Hague Betting on the Rails Handicap Stakes Picture: Nick Butcher (Image: Archant © 2018)