Neptune fancied to strike

WETHERBY’S Charlie Hall meeting kicks off with a cracking card, highlighted by the Bet365 Handicap Chase in which Neptune Equester is fancied to strike for Brian Ellison.

The seven-year-old looks to have been laid out for this decent prize on the back of a run on the Flat at Pontefract last month.

Not surprisingly, he cut little ice in a 10-furlong affair that featured representatives from such luminaries of the level as Jarvis, Gosden, Stoute and Cecil.