LAST year’s winner Church Island is in a field of 25 left in the bet365 Gold Cup Chase at Sandown Park on Saturday.

Brighton’s EBF Newhaven To Le Havre On Transmanche Ferries Maiden Stakes has been landed by some decent future performers in its various guises over the years and this year’s winner Smokey Storm will soon be stepped up in grade too.

Nicky Henderson has been in fine form of late and is fancied to be celebrating another winner courtesy of Treasury Counsel, who tackles the Eastwell Manor Beginners’ Chase at Folkestone.