Noland facing crucial outing

NOLAND may be retired if he puts in a second successive poor performance in the Aon Chase at Newbury today.

Owner John Hales has that prospect in mind should the 10-year-old fail to show a big improvement on his latest start at Cheltenham two weeks ago when he was pulled up by Tony McCoy.

“He was very disappointing at Cheltenham, he didn’t run any sort of a race,” said Hales.