Royal trainer Nicky Henderson returned to action on Sunday after a three-month ban with a solitary runner at the new Ffos Las track in Wales.

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• Racing results: Sunday October 11

Knar Mardy, a 6-1 chance, finished a well-beaten fourth in the last race.

Henderson was suspended and fined £40,400 in July for using a prohibited anti-bleeding substance on Moonlit Path, a horse owned by the Queen.

Henderson, 58, has a string of 160 horses at his stables near Lambourn in southern England. He has twice been champion jumps trainer and has a particularly good record at Cheltenham.

The Queen, a lifelong racing enthusiast, had six horses with Henderson at the time of the ban.