Officials at Lingfield will stage a 3pm inspection this afternoon to assess the prospects for their National Hunt card on Monday.

Laertes put up a fine staying performance to land the £25,000 Press & Journal Highland National, the feature race on the final day of Perth’s festival meeting.

In more ways than one it was very much a case of the calm before the storm for racegoers at Market Rasen.

Osolomio, a decent handicapper on the Flat for Alan Swinbank, got off the mark under National Hunt Rules on his second start over timber for Jennie Candlish at Chepstow.

NICANOR, the only horse to have beaten Denman under National Hunt Rules, is nearing a return to the track.

Granit Jack came over from France with a huge reputation and it will be a big surprise if he cannot get off the mark in his division of the UBS “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle at Taunton.

Friday’s National Hunt action at Huntingdon is subject to the track passing a precautionary inspection at 7.30am.

William Bonney boosted the Cheltenham Festival hopes of Tidal Bay and Kicks For Free when grinding out victory in the Betrescue antepostmag.com 'National Hunt' Novices' Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham today.

RICHARD Fahey’s record at Catterick deserves more than a cursory glance and Ball O Malt is taken to produce the goods in the Streetlam “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle.