Sam Waley-Cohen is taking nothing for granted as Long Run has his final run before defending his Cheltenham Gold Cup crown in tomorrow’s Betfair Denman Chase.

Kauto Star brought the house down at Haydock with a brilliant performance to win the Betfair Chase for a fourth time.

LONG RUN and Kauto Star are the headline names among 19 entries for the Betfair Chase at Haydock on November 19.

RUBY WALSH will not return to Britain until next Saturday at the earliest, following a five-day ban incurred for using his whip with excessive frequency aboard Edgardo Sol in a handicap chase at Aintree on Saturday.

Borderlescott is lame and will not run in the Audi King George Stakes at Glorious Goodwood next Thursday.

Tom George believes he will not be short of potential suitors for the ride on Nacarat in Saturday’s Betfair Chase at Haydock.

Markab may have run his last race for Henry Candy after having been ruled out of Sunday’s Prix de l’Abbaye due to an unsatisfactory scope.

Robin Bastiman’s dual Nunthorpe Stakes hero Borderlescott has been handed top weight of 10st 4lb in the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup on September 19.

Robin Bastiman brought the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes home to Yorkshire as he saddled Borderlescott to successive wins in the Group One sprint on the final day of the Ebor meeting today.

Budding sprinter Amour Propre is set to warm up for Royal Ascot with a run at Haydock later this month, as long as the ground is suitable, following his win at Newmarket.

This afternoon's meetings at Navan and Wetherby will go ahead after the tracks passed morning inspections.

WAR Of Attrition is virtually certain to run in the €20,000 Thurles Chase over two miles and six furlongs at Thurles next Thursday.

With tomorrow’s action from Warwick and Wetherby in doubt due to the threat of waterlogging, punters should at least have some jumps action to look forward to at Kempton.

It may be 364 days before he hangs his stocking again, but there were no St Stephen's Day blues for Peter Maddison as Lothian Falcon flew to victory in the £50,000 skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby.

Wetherby’s concluding race may have been run in virtual darkness, but the Nicky Richards-trained Cornerback did her best to light up a grey afternoon at the North Yorkshire venue.

Connections of the exciting Denman have pinpointed Newbury’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup as a potential option for their star.

Wetherby plays host to one of two jumps meetings to signal the start of the 2007-8 season tomorrow, and the Rocom Ltd Handicap Chase can go the way of Malcolm Jefferson’s Elvis Returns.

Rosses Point is on target to take his chance in the skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Chase at Wetherby on St Stephen's Day.

Sue Smith is considering aiming Mister McGoldrick at the Victor Chandler Chase at Cheltenham next month.

Howard Johnson was left to ponder plans for Inglis Drever after his stable star made the long journey to Windsor for the totesport Long Walk Hurdle only for the meeting to be cancelled.

Truckers Tavern and Hussard Collonges, two of the north’s leading Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup hopes, are set to meet in the skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby tomorrow.