McCoy lands Master ride

Tony McCoy will be on board Champion Chase hero Master Minded when he lines-up in the Seasons Holidays Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown on Saturday, according to the Daily Telegraph.

With Paul Nicholls’ stable jockey Ruby Walsh currently on the sidelines after suffering a ruptured spleen at Cheltenham last month, Sam Thomas has come in for some criticism in some quarters of late after the high-profile defeats of Kauto Star and Big Buck’s.