TIMMY MURPHY will have his appeal against a seven-day ban heard at the Jockey Club this morning as he tries to overturn the suspension which would rule him out of a number of a high-profile rides over the Christmas period.

Truckers Tavern and Hussard Collonges, two of the north’s leading Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup hopes, are set to meet in the skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby tomorrow.