A group of pub workers are swapping life behind the bar for life on the road when they try to break the world record for the fastest land journey to Cape Town.

Bobs Worth and Mossley gave Nicky Henderson a notable one-two in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham for his first winner of the meeting.

Two former guards convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal testified at US Army Pfc. Lynndie England’s military trial that she was impressionable and under the sway of her soldier boyfriend, Private Charles Graner, labelled the ringleader of detainee abuse by the prosecution.

Prosecutors have portrayed US soldier Lynndie England as an out-of-control servicewoman who mocked Iraqi prisoners in photos “just for fun”.

PENNYS WORTH made an eye-catching debut at Curraheen Park in heat one of the Kasco Stakes on Saturday night.