Trainer Henry de Bromhead and Sizing Europe’s owners are no nearer deciding on the eleven-year-old’s Cheltenham target following his workmanlike win in the Grade 2 Boylesports.com Tied Cottage Chase in Punchestown yesterday.

Asking for owner Pat Redmond at his Ashdown Park Hotel is met with the response one expects in racing-mad Ireland. “Yes, I know Big Zeb,” says the receptionist.

I’M just about coming to terms now with what happened at Down Royal last Saturday, it was certainly an afternoon of mixed fortune and mixed emotion.

HURRICANE FLY will miss his intended outing this weekend at Punchestown in the Grade 1 The Dobbins & Madigans at Punchestown Hurdle (Morgiana Hurdle).

ONLY six are set to face the starter in the listed Cork Stakes at Cork tonight, but it has an interesting appearance all the same.