Nicky Henderson is relieved to have finally got Altior’s season up and running – and “all is going well” for his bid to emulate Badsworth Boy in the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

Denis O’Regan hopes to be back in action at Catterick this afternoon after bruising his hand at Wetherby on Saturday.

MONICA DICKINSON, matriarch of the legendary racing family, has died aged 83.

Monica Dickinson, matriarch of the legendary Yorkshire-based racing family, has died aged 83.

Malcolm Jefferson’s Calatagan may have been the 14-1 outsider of the party in the £30,000 skybet.com Castleford Handicap Chase but he ran out a game winner of the two-mile test at Wetherby today.