Bowen happy ahead of Stand run

Take The Stand is on course to run at Cheltenham this weekend with trainer Peter Bowen not wishing to swap his totesport Gold Cup runner-up for anything else in this year’s renewal.

The Welsh handler’s 10-year-old put up a lifetime best performance to chase home Kicking King last March and will have his prep run for another tilt at the blue riband in Saturday’s Letheby & Christopher Chase.