Fair handed Chase mission

Arkle Trophy second Fair Along is to revert to fences at Aintree next month before being aimed at the totesport Chester Cup in May.

The five-year-old ran twice at the Cheltenham Festival, finishing runner-up to My Way De Solzen and then in the rear in the County Hurdle after showing up for a long way.

“I’d imagine he’d go to Aintree for the two-mile Maghull Novice Chase - although that might be too sharp for him – or the Melling Chase over two and a half,” trainer Philip Hobbs told At The Races.

“The Chester Cup is the plan for him. Going two and a quarter miles on a tight left-handed track, he will buzz round those bends.”