Best Mate can get back on track

DUAL Cheltenham Gold Cup hero, Best Mate, can get his season back on track in tomorrow’s Grade One Ericsson ’Chase at Leopardstown.

Henrietta Knight’s delightful eight-year-old suffered a rare reverse on his first outing of the campaign in the Peterborough ’Chase at Huntingdon last month.

Reportedly unsuited by the tacky surface, it was officially good to soft, Best Mate was never travelling with any fluency, trailing in a well-beaten eight lengths second behind the 5lbs receiving Jair Du Cochet.