Layne favourite for Eider glory

Arnold Layne, a faller when the well-backed favourite for Warwick’s Classic Chase, is 6-1 market leader with the sponsors for the totesport Eider at Newcastle on Saturday.

The Caroline Bailey-trained grey had looked a progressive sort, winning his three previous starts, but his good run came to an abrupt end as he gave Tony McCoy a terrible tumble that has kept the champion jockey on the sidelines ever since.