Shorter trip ideal for Najca De Thaix

NAJCA DE THAIX can take a starring role as Folkestone stage the only jumps action of the day.

Emma Lavelle’s useful charge will be going for a third success in his last four starts in the Coral 1,550 Shops Nationwide Novices’ Handicap Chase.

This progressive seven-year-old has been mixing and matching hurdles and fences this season but is better treated over the larger obstacles.