Forpadydeplasterer remains a live hope for Champion Chase

I’D imagine Tom Cooper returned from Sandown last Saturday a reasonably happy man.

His Forpadydeplasterer may have been slammed to the tune of 15 lengths by Twist Magic, in the Tingle Creek, but there was plenty to like about the performance all the same.

Normally, when a horse gets beaten that sort of distance, you can begin to write him off a bit, but that is not the case when it comes to assessing Forpadydeplasterer’s prospects in Cheltenham’s two mile Champion Chase.