Cheveton (12-1) landed the Bronze Cup at Ayr's Western meeting 12 months ago, and improved on that to lift the William Hill Ayr Silver Cup, giving Ebor-winning apprentice Dale Swift another big handicap success.
Racing with the group on the stands side from his draw in 21, the Richard Price-trained seven-year-old found an extra gear deep inside the final furlong to beat Marvellous Value by half a length.
A further one and a quarter lengths back in third was the Ryan-trained Advanced, who ran a huge race having been on his own in the centre of the track for most of the six-furlong contest.
Price said: "We were as confident as you can be in a race like this, because the draw can be a lottery. You really don't know. But the ground came right for him, we knew we had him right and he has done it well.
"He won the Bronze Cup last year, so we were hoping to go for the Silver Cup, and fortunately he just crept in. He has not had his ground so far this season really, but on the other hand I wasn't quite sure how he would handle ground as soft as this.
"Dale gets on so well with him, when others ride him he rears up in the stalls and misses the break."
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