WATAMU BAY, as low as 10-1 for the four-mile National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham, has been put down after suffering an injury on the gallops.

FORPADYDEPLASTERER has made pleasing improvement since found to have been clinically abnormal after the William Hill King George VI Chase.

Nicky Richards is still undecided whether the Cheltenham Festival target for Monet's Garden will be the Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase or the Ryanair Chase.