You can't keep a good Supershare winner down.

Just when everyone thought that the moment of glory had come and gone for Graham Chapman, of Old Dykelands, Haxby, he's back to earn himself another daily £50 prize for having the best money-spinning portfolio of all 7,500 entries and counting.

What's more he has nothing to fear from the runner-up who falls just £24.53 short of Graham's winning value of £10,667 for the very good reason that the challenger is...himself.

Supershare '98 sponsors, Walsh Lucas & Company, the independent financial advisers of Micklegate, York, organised a second presentation to Graham.

And if victory is sweet it is because having won the £50 last Friday, yesterday we reported that he was elbowed out of first place by Bob Watts of York. Now roles are reversed. Bob is in third place and Graham is triumphant at one and two.

Graham, 53, an accounts administrator in Nestle Rowntree's fleet services, said: "I know there is a long way to go and the slightest movement in the Stock Exchange could push me off my perch between now and the end of the competition on March 30 but I have a scent of that £2,000 first prize and maybe even the runner's up bonanza of £1,000."

His winning choice of four out of the 32 Supershare plcs, with one in each sector, minimum £500, maximum £5,000 was: Asda (£500), National Power (£4,000), Next (£5,000) and Persimmon (£500).

It all happened on the back of a record-breaking day on the Stock Exchange with the market hitting an all time high on the FTSE 100 index of 5,858.

It makes a change from last week when results were pretty lacklustre. There was not a single Supershare in the Popular Shares sector that did not take a clobbering. The Stores sector didn't do much better, with only WH Smith going up. Marks & Spencer as well as Storehouse stayed relatively steady, but everything else went on the slide.

And in the Yorkshire sector only York Waterworks and the Yorkshire Group succeeded in beating the downward drift.

If you're not up there in the Top 100 tonight take consolation from the fact that last week the average value of every portfolio was £9,787.

But that has all changed now, says Barrie Bluck, of stockbroker Redmayne Bentley who watched the relentless recovery this week culminating in yesterday's record high.

Barrie says: "Among the most outstanding performers were the Halifax, up 17p to £9.42p on news of its £780 million bid for Midshires; General Accident, an astonishing 57p up to £13.80 as a reaction to merger plans with Commercial Union; Cadburys continuing its climb by 21p to 820p; Persimmon added another five pence on news of annual 53 per cent pre-tax profits; and new confidence in Kingfisher reflected in a 33p rise to close at £10.30.

"On the negative side is Dixons for which trading yesterday was dull following rumours that it may be relegated today (Wednesday) from the FTSE 100."

With the market in buoyant mood yesterday there is still every chance of elbowing your way through the pack, so enter Supershare NOW, by buying a copy of the Evening Press and filling in the coupon.

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