Tidal Bay heads a final field of 19 runners for tomorrow’s Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury.

It may be 364 days before he hangs his stocking again, but there were no St Stephen's Day blues for Peter Maddison as Lothian Falcon flew to victory in the £50,000 skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby.

AIDAN O’BRIEN may bypass next Sunday’s Prix du Jockey-Club and let all his Vodafone Derby entries take their chance at Epsom.