The talented Colman Sweeney gave Salsify as good a drive as you could wish to see to land the Christie’s Foxhunter Chase.

Selected tips from courses in the UK and Ireland.

HURRICANE FLY, favourite for the williamhill.com Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, has been ruled out of the Festival by Willie Mullins.

Briareus overcame a near two-year absence to deny the Paul Nicholls-trained I’msingingtheblues in the kempton.co.uk Graduation Chase.

Andrew Balding has a small team of five jumpers to go to war with this winter and got his 2008 National Hunt season off to a great start as Show Winner collected at Kempton.