ONEWAY must carry top weight if he lines up in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

Oneway must carry top weight if he lines up in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

TRAINERS Mark Rimell and Noel Chance have different feelings about the prospective rise in the weights for the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot on Saturday week.

Dual Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace proved himself no back-number and again staked his Champion Hurdle claim with an effortless success in the Grade Two Coral Ascot Hurdle at the Berkshire track.

Hasty Prince and Tarlac are both on course to make the starting line-up in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham on November 12.

BARACOUDA will miss the totesport Long Walk Hurdle at Windsor on Saturday after an administrative error at Francois Doumen's yard ruled the French ace out of this weekend's showpiece.

ARCALIS could bypass tomorrow’s Pertemps ‘Fighting Fifth’ Hurdle due to unsuitable ground at Newcastle.

TRABOLGAN is now favourite for the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup following continued heavy sport.

Champion Hurdle runner-up Harchibald sets back out on the road to the Cheltenham Festival when facing six others in the Grade One John James McManus Memorial Hurdle at Tipperary on Sunday.

Stayers’ Hurdle hero Iris’s Gift could make his eagerly-awaited debut over fences at Windsor on Saturday.

Stayers’ Hurdle hero Iris’s Gift could make his eagerly-awaited debut over fences at Windsor on Saturday.

HARDY EUSTACE is fancied to confirm Cheltenham form with Rooster Booster in this afternoon’s Emo Oil Champion Hurdle at Punchestown.

Jonjo O'Neill's Rhinestone Cowboy is unlikely to turn out for tomorrow’s Emo Oil Champion Hurdle at Punchestown after a brilliant victory there today.

Rhinestone Cowboy was a surprise name on the list of declared runners for tomorrow’s Emo Oil Champion Hurdle at Punchestown.

End-of-season formlines can often prove deceptive and punters were stung again when Hasty Prince proved the surprise package on the first day of the Betfred Gold Cup meeting at Sandown Park on Friday.

INTERSKY FALCON heads a field of eight for the £70,000 Concept Hurdle at Sandown today.

Iris’s Gift, the game winner of Cheltenham’s bonusprint.com Stayers’ Hurdle, is the star on show in the opening race of Aintree’s three-day Grand National meeting tomorrow.

Philip Hobbs today reported Rooster Booster to be in fine shape ahead of his bid to win the Smurfit Champion Hurdle for the second year running at Cheltenham tomorrow.

Rooster Booster is a top-priced 13-8 with Blue Square to retain his crown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on Tuesday.

EMMA LAVELLE believes handicap debutant Self Defense has a realistic chance of upstaging Rooster Booster in the Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury on Saturday.

CHAMPION Hurdle hero Rooster Booster has been installed 11-2 favourite with the sponsors for the Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury next month following the publication of the weights yesterday.

Hasty Prince has been ruled out of Saturday’s Ladbroke Hurdle at Ascot after sustaining a minor injury.

TED WALSH’S Bob Justice and the Dermot Weld-trained Mutakarrim head the weights for the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown on January 11.

Hasty Prince could clash with Rigmarole again in Saturday’s Ladbroke Hurdle at Ascot.

Rooster Booster will face an easier task than expected tomorrow when he makes his seasonal reappearance in the Tote Bula Hurdle, following the defection of Australian import Specular.

Rooster Booster heads 12 entries for the Tote Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday.

Back In Front had to work hard to justify odds-on favouritism in the Mongey Communications Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon to confirm his credentials for the Smurfit Champion Hurdle next March.

Tiutchev, whose comeback behind Hasty Prince in the Tote Silver Trophy at Chepstow on Saturday satisfied Martin Pipe, is set for a return to fences in Ireland next month.

Hasty Prince confirmed himself a classy performer when taking the opening Light Infantry Plate Novices’ Hurdle at Doncaster today.