Detroit team monitors ground conditions

Owner Terry Warner has warned the ground will have to be suitable for Detroit City to have his Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle prep race at Sandown on Saturday week.

The Philip Hobbs-trained grey is an intended runner in the Agfa Hurdle unless underfoot conditions came up testing, in which case the 3-1 favourite for the blue riband would go to Cheltenham without another run.