Progressive Rolling Aces is one to note

I certainly don’t ride any certainties at Kempton today, but have reasonable prospects of getting among the winners all of the same.

I start on Irish Saint in a Grade 2 hurdle for juveniles and, basically, he is putting his Triumph credentials on the line. The bottom line is that he has to win to have any chance at the festival.

Irish Saint won at Auteuil and Kempton and then couldn’t hold Nicky Henderson’s Rolling Star at Cheltenham. Rolling Star, of course, was subsequently promoted to favouritism for the Triumph Hurdle. Irish Saint clearly has more than a life now, but I’m still not getting too carried away with him.