Martin hoping to ride his luck

Tony Martin hopes the Davids Lad case will go in his favour in the Dublin High Court today after landing a gamble with Xenophon in the Coral Cup on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival.

Davids Lad was suspended from racing for 42 days following his run at Naas last month. But in a long-running saga, Martin looked like being allowed to saddle the nine-year-old in Wednesday’s Mildmay Of Flete Challenge Cup only for the Irish Turf Club to successfully have the ban re-instated on Tuesday afternoon.