Ruby Walsh: Step up in trip could really suit Chacun Pour Soi

With Allaho on the comeback trail, Chacun Pour Soi steps into the Kinloch Brae fold, and the step up in trip could really suit this former two-mile star

THUMBS UP: Chacun Pour Soi and Paul Townend all smiles after winning a race at Leopardstown for trainer Willie Mullins. Pic: Healy Racing

Blue Monday started the week, and a blue weather chart has dominated it, resulting in Saturday afternoon’s feature meeting at Ascot being cancelled. It becomes the seventh meeting to be lost this week in the UK, which hasn’t hosted a jump meeting since Hereford last Monday. Chances are Haydock will follow suit later on Saturday morning, and Taunton became number eight when it was lost late on Friday afternoon.

Navan has moved its two chases to the last two races on the card on Saturday afternoon, suggesting the chase course could be problematic and more prone to frost because, at this point of the season, that track has had plenty of traffic and, therefore, less grass cover to insulate it.