PETER BOWEN launches a five-strong challenge as he bids for a second successive victory in the totesport.com Summer Plate at Market Rasen today.

Barry Fenton missed a valuable winning ride as Noel Fehily deputised aboard the front-running Priors Dale in the Dick Reynolds Novices’ Handicap Chase at Wincanton.

Connections of Aztec Warrior are contemplating a run at the Cheltenham Festival with the six-year-old after his comfortable victory in the Betfred “The Bonus King” Novices’ Chase at Wincanton.

Siberian Highness is being lined up for a crack at the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices’ Hurdle after bouncing back to form at Taunton.

Richard Johnson, forced to give up the big-race rides on Monkerhostin and One Knight over the Christmas period, returned to winning ways at Taunton for Philip Hobbs.