Tikram is on course for a tilt at the totesport.com Summer Plate Handicap Chase at Market Rasen on Saturday.

Beef Or Salmon heads 17 entries for the Grade Two Betfair Bowl over three miles and one furlong on the first day of the Aintree Grand National meeting on Thursday.

GARY MOORE served notice that his stable’s quiet spell has ended as he sent out a double at his local jumps track Plumpton.

CORAL have cut Calling Brave from 16-1 to 12-1 for the Racing Post Chase on Saturday after Nicky Henderson’s charge was yesterday the subject of decent market support.

In-form trainer Paul Nicholls could be double handed in the Sky Bet Chase at Southwell on Saturday.

Trainer Mark Pitman revealed Queen Mother Champion Chase entry Dempsey is on course for a crack at the Victor Chandler Chase at Cheltenham on January 28.

Tikram could have as many as three races next month as he attempts to make up for lost time after being off the track since April.

Gary Moore has reported Tikram to be “fresh and well” after his performance in yesterday’s Paddy Power Gold Cup, and the Brighton handler is considering running his stable star at Windsor next weekend.

TONY DOBBIN has picked up the plum ride on Monkerhostin, the favourite for Saturday’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

MONKERHOSTIN is the new ante-post favourite for Saturday’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham after original market leader Our Vic was ruled out yesterday.

HARBOUR PILOT pleased trainer Noel Meade on the gallops yesterday morning and looks likely to line up for the James Nicholson Wine Merchant Champion Chase on Saturday.

Gary Moore is hoping last season’s Cheltenham hero Tikram can provide his team with another big-race winner at the home of jumps racing when he lines up in the £110,000 (€159,500) Paddy Power Gold Cup next month.

Martin Pipe gained another significant success to stretch his lead in the trainers’ championship when Seebald landed the Faucetts For Mira Showers Silver Trophy at Cheltenham today.

Tikram (12-1) finished with a wet sail under Timmy Murphy to land the Mildmay Of Flete Challenge Cup.

Jockey Mick Fitzgerald faces a race against time to be fit for the Cheltenham Festival after sustaining a broken arm in a fall at Sandown yesterday.

Nobody saw much of it, not least his 19 rivals, but Chauvinist was a clear-cut winner of the £100,000 (€156,000) Ladbroke Hurdle at a fog-bound Ascot today.

TIKRAM, 25-1 for the Ladbroke Hurdle with the sponsors on Monday, is now as low as 12-1 in two places after the flow of support for Gary Moore’s hurdler continued yesterday.

Rooster Booster tops the weights unveiled today for the Listed Rehabilitation of Racehorses Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday week.