Sprinter Sacre is set to line up for the Sodexo Clarence House Chase at Ascot tomorrow after trainer Nicky Henderson “pressed the green button” following an all-important walk of the course on Thursday morning.

BROADSTONE ROAD gave Craughwell, Co Galway, trainer Paul Gilligan his biggest ever success when landing the Dawn Milk Handicap Chase at the concluding stage of a hugely successful Listowel Festival yesterday.

Barrow Drive completed a five-timer for trainer Tony Mullins in the mud at Punchestown to compensate for a mishap earlier in the afternoon to another of the stable’s stars, The Galway Man.

THE rapidly improving Barrow Drive cannot be opposed in the Irish Field Novice Chase at Punchestown this afternoon, on a programme which is set to house a huge amount of runners.