Etoile swerves Lingfield assignment

Paul Nolan has ruled leading Irish Independent Arkle Trophy candidate Accordion Etoile out of an engagement at Lingfield on Saturday.

The seven-year-old is one of 10 entries in the Grade Two intercasino.co.uk Novices’ Chase but Wexford-based Nolan will not be travelling last season’s Champion Hurdle fourth.

“He won’t be going to Lingfield,” Nolan told At The Races.

“We only stuck him in there in the chance that the ground might be better than it is over here but they are forecast to be testing too.”