Turpin set for Haydock

Nicky Richards has reported Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup flop Turpin Green to be in good order since his mishap at Newbury.

Sent off the 5-1 second favourite he belted the first fence and was never travelling thereafter for Tony Dobbin.

But Richards has revealed he is in fine form and is likely to be seen at Haydock at the turn of the year.

“He seems to have come out of the race all right,” said Richards.

“He made a fair old hash of the first and he wasn’t travelling from then. It just wasn’t his day so we’ll have to pick the pieces out of it.

“He’ll probably go to Haydock for the Haydock Graduation Chase at the end of the year (December 30), that is the plan for him,” he told At The Races.