No stopping Express

PRESENTING EXPRESS has an excellent chance of completing his hat-trick by winning the Hythe Handicap Chase at Folkestone.

A poor performer in three of his four outings over hurdles, Emma Lavelle's seven-year-old hinted at better to come over fences last season and so it has proved.

After almost nine months on the sidelines, he reappeared for a pipe-opener over hurdles at Fontwell in early November and nearly won, going down by the narrowest of margins, collared in the last stride.