IMPORTANT Cheltenham clues were promised at Huntingdon yesterday but after mixed messages from the connections of Starluck and a defeat for Minella Class, punters were rather left scratching their heads.

David Pipe has trained a winner at every jumps track in Britain after Hunterview landed the feature John Smith’s Scottish County Handicap Hurdle at Musselburgh.

Denis O’Regan was in cracking form at Ayr with a treble highlighted by imposing Cheltenham hope Quwetwo in the Blue Square Poker Novices’ Hurdle.

Ignotus’ last two runs may have resulted in a 40-day ban and a disqualification but he made the right kind of headlines at Kelso.