“We’ll dream for another while,” said trainer Gordon Elliott after Don Cossack completed his racecourse preparation for the Cheltenham Gold Cup with a workmanlike performance in yesterday’s Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles.

Today’s card at Fairyhouse doesn’t look the easiest for punters to get the new year off to a positive start, but Sambremont showed more last time than in previous efforts over fences and hurdles in this country, and can take the beginners’ chase for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.

Le Vent d’Antan gets the nap to make a winning start over fences in the Annual Membership Beginners Chase at Naas this afternoon.

Old rivals Salsify and Tammys Hill will do battle again in the Albert Bartlett Hunters Chase at Down Royal on Thursday.

It was billed as a day of destiny and so it proved.

Three races in France are among the possible options for Solwhit following his victory at Naas on Saturday.

Paul Nicholls’ Lexus hero Tidal Bay is one of the 16 entries in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown on February 9.

Whoever had the foresight to name Rule The World must, at least secretly, be congratulating themselves.

Scintillating Naas scorer Rule The World is likely to head straight to the Cheltenham Festival in March should connections give a trip to Prestbury Park the green light.

Roi Du Mee led a treble for owners Gigginstown House Stud at Navan when supplementing two wins over fences with a neat victory over the smaller obstacles in the Proudstown Handicap Hurdle.

Trainer Paul Nolan is confident Joncol will “strip a lot fitter” for his comeback run at Punchestown last week.

The Gordon Elliott-trained Roi Du Mee, enterprisingly ridden by Paul Carberry, completed back-to-back wins in the Star ‘Best For Racing Coverage’ Chase, one of four Grade 3 events on yesterday’s card in Punchestown.

Punchestown officials remain hopeful of racing going ahead today despite yesterday’s fixture being lost to waterlogging.

Sizing Europe is among a top-class entry of 15 for the PricewaterhouseCoopers Champion Chase at Gowran Park on Sunday.

He seems fine and I am happy with him... two miles and five furlongs around Cheltenham is right up his street.

RUBI LIGHT, running over his ideal two and a half mile trip, has to be the choice in the Grade 2 Red Mills Chase at Gowran Park this afternoon.

JONCOL has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a tendon injury during the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown last week.

Robbie Hennessy believes Rubi Light has every chance of getting three miles in the Lexus Chase tomorrow as the ground continues to dry out at Leopardstown.

VERY little will change for us on Christmas Day given the chaotic week that is ahead. All the horses will be exercised as normal with racing coming up in Leopardstown, Down Royal and Limerick.

Quito De La Roque and Rubi Light are the star names among 13 possible runners for the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown on December 28.

The Robbie Hennessy trained 5/2 joint-favourite Rubi Light made his Grade 1 breakthrough when beating 2009 winner Joncol in the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase in Punchestown yesterday.

Rubi Light captured his first Grade One victory in tremendous style with a brilliant performance in the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown.

Rubi Light ran his rivals ragged to be an impressive winner of the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown.

WITH conditions in his favour, Joncol will be expected to become the first horse since Native Upmanship to win a second John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown tomorrow.

RIDING Hinterland in the opening juvenile hurdle at Cheltenham is a good way to start the day and I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t win.

PAUL NOLAN expects the testing ground to suit Joncol in Sunday’s John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown.

LEADING trainer Dessie Hughes has hailed the “sensible” decision of the Government to limit the reduction of the horse and greyhound racing fund to 1.7%.

LAST year’s winner Tranquil Sea has been given the green light by Edward O’Grady to bid for a John Durkan Memorial Chase double at Punchestown on Sunday after his comeback win in the Clonmel Oil Chase.

Denman appeared among 17 contenders for the Lexus Chase as the entries for the major races at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival were published.

TWO lengths was the winning distance, but connections of Grands Crus were in no doubt David Pipe’s grey had made a far greater margin of progress in the GPG Novices’ Chase at Newbury yesterday.

PAUL NOLAN is unsure how Joncol will handle conditions at Newbury as he prepares to take his chance in Saturday’s Hennessy Gold Cup.

Noel Fehily is confident a lack of race fitness will not be a problem for Michel Le Bon after riding his Hennessy Gold Cup mount in a schooling session on Tuesday morning.

Ante-post favourite Aiteen Thirtythree features among 19 confirmations for the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday.

Paul Nolan is praying for plenty of rain to tempt him to run Joncol in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury later this month.

THE potentially top-class Joncol, a horse who has been plagued by problems, made a fine start to the season when taking the John Meagher Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday.

FOR PADY DE PLASTERER is set to make his eagerly-anticipated return to action in the Star “Best For Racing Coverage” Chase at Punchestown on Thursday.

Paul Nolan is tempted to run Joncol in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury in November.

Cheltenham Festival hero Noble Prince has been pencilled in for a return to action in October.

NICKY HENDERSON is keen to run former champion hurdler Binocular at either Aintree or Punchestown.

TWENTY-FOUR horses, and all the big names, remain in the reckoning at the latest forfeit stage for next month’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Kempes is the new name in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup picture after running out a decisive winner of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.

Kempes ran out a clear-cut winner of the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown for Willie Mullins and David Casey.

It’s funny how things have worked out with the delay of a week’s racing due to the heavy rain.

MONEY TRIX is the hopeful each-way choice to land the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown this afternoon.

LAST weekend we went through the big Hennessy meeting at Leopardstown in some detail, but the weather ruined the party and, of course, it has been rescheduled to this afternoon.

PAUL Nicholls is not concerned about the prospect of testing ground for Hennessy Gold Cup favourite Pride Of Dulcote.

ANYONE who knows me will be well aware that sitting on the fence is not in my nature, but it is precisely what I intend to do as far as tomorrow’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown is concerned.