KAUTO STAR is the best horse in this afternoon’s Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup but there are too many question marks for me to back him at such a short price.

WILLIE Mullins plans to be triple-handed as he bids to win the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham for a sixth time.

RACING at Down Royal this afternoon is subject to a precautionary 7.30am inspection. The worry is the threat of frost and, with temperatures forecast to go below zero overnight, it may well be touch and go.

YOU have got to say Sunday’s AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown has a far more interesting shape to it than might have been expected.

THE progressive Niall Madden-trained Wins Now can land the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle at Cork this afternoon.

TONY MARTIN’S worst fears were realised yesterday morning when his ante-post favourite for this afternoon’s Ellen Construction Thyestes Handicap Chase at Gowran Park, Dun Doire, failed to make the line up and is first reserve.