For Good Measure looks to be every inch a winner

For Good Measure looks a live contender for a typically wide-open renewal of the Close Brothers Imperial Cup at Sandown tomorrow.

The fiercely competitive handicap is the annual feature on the Saturday before the Cheltenham Festival, and, with entries in the Coral Cup, County Hurdle and Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Hurdle, it is not inconceivable For Good Measure will be in action at Prestbury Park next week.

Representing a formidable combination in Philip Hobbs and owner JP McManus, the five-year-old looked very ordinary after four starts, but has barely come off the bridle on his last two outings.