Everyone loves a grey in racing, particularly a good one, so all eyes were on Detroit City as the young pretender to the established order of hurdling stars made his final public appearance ahead of his big date at Cheltenham next month.

Material World is set to head to Haydock on Saturday week after missing an intended engagement at Sandown.

Paul Nicholls ended a relative lean spell when saddling his first winners for 15 days as New Little Bric and Taranis provided him with a short-priced double at Sandown.

HENRIETTA KNIGHT has confirmed that Racing Demon is on target to return to fences in the Commercial First Ascot Chase on February 17.

Napolitain and Tony McCoy just held on to take an incident-packed renewal of the Grade One totesport.com Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase at Sandown.