Bishop’s Bridge could be set for a trip to Cheltenham after notching an impressive success at Huntingdon.

Bureaucrat, who threw away certain victory when falling at the final flight on his debut over jumps, made up for that lapse with a fluent pillar-to-post victory for Phillip Hobbs and Richard Johnson in the Karcher Juvenile Novices' Hurdle.

A TRAGIC failure to follow the strict rules governing unmanned rail crossings may have caused yesterday’s fatal accident.