Allmankind remained unbeaten in two starts, all this month, after a frontrunning win in Saturday's Grade 2 JCB Triumph Hurdle for 3-year-olds at 2 1-16 miles.

Ridden by Harry Skelton, for his brother, trainer Dan, Allmankind (11-4) led throughout and won by 2 1-4 lengths over Botox Has (11-4) on a soft turf course. Repetitio (33-1) finished third in the field of 11.

Allmankind led by as many as 10 lengths, but had an advantage of about three lengths coming down the hill, two hurdles from the finish. Nordano offered a brief threat in the final three furlongs.

A gelding by Sea the Moon, Allmankind was the 37-length winner of a novices' hurdle at Warwick on Nov. 8. Allmankind won a minor maiden race at Chelmsford City at 1 1-4 miles on the synthetic track in 2018 and was last of six behind eventual Group 1 winner Circus Maximus in the Dee Stakes at Chester in May in his second-to-last start on the flat. Circus Maximus was fourth in the Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

Allmankind was gelded over the summer and underwent a breathing operation before he was switched from flat trainer Michael Bell to Skelton.

Dan Skelton said Allmankind is a natural leader "who could not be ridden any other way."

"They got upside him two out, and he didn't panic," he said. "He was happy and relaxed."

The long-term goal is the Triumph Hurdle for 4-year-olds here in March, one of the top races of the four-day Cheltenham Festival.

In the day's first race, Thyme Hill (15-8) was a three-length winner of a novices' hurdle at 2 5-8 miles under jockey Richard Johnson. Thyme Hill, a 5-year-old gelding, stalked the pace to the second-to-last hurdle and moved clear in the uphill run to the finish to beat 5-1 Champagne Well.

Thyme Hill is unbeaten in two starts over hurdles, having won a Grade 2 novices' hurdle at Chepstow on Oct. 11 for trainer Philip Hobbs.