Bookmakers’ ante-post lists are racing’s futures market. Readers can catch up with the latest developments in this sphere – best prices are in bold – with The Independent’s Tuesday service. Champion Hurdle: Collier Bay is a top-priced 100-30 with William Hill – the Tote go 9-4 – while Space Trucker is 7-1 (Coral/ Tote) – Ladbrokes go 11-2.
Queen Mother Champion Chase: Ask Tom is 5-1 (Ladbrokes) – Coral go 7- 2.Triumph Hurdle: Shooting Light is 7-1 (William Hill) – the Tote go 5- 1 – while Commanche Court is 12-1 (William Hill) – the Tote go 7-1 – while Kerawi is 10-1 (William Hill/Ladbrokes) – Coral go 7-1. L’Opera is 8-1 (Coral) – Ladbrokes go 6-1.Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase: Dublin Flyer is 10-1 (William Hill/Tote) – Coral go 7-1.Ian Davies. The ride on one of the leading candidates for the Arkle (Novices’) Chase could be on the market if Lorcan Wyer cannot satisfy himself that he is fit enough to do the horse, Simply Dashing, justice. The luckless Wyer, who had been back in action for only 11 days after three months on the sidelines with a broken jaw and pelvis, suffered his latest setback when the same horse that had caused the earlier injury, Thornton Gate, fell in the first race at Doncaster on Saturday.
He was briefly knocked unconscious and has tendon damage to his left arm.Now he has had to postpone a planned return to action at Catterick tomorrow, putting his participation in the Cheltenham Festival in doubt.”I don’t think it would be fair to anyone to make a comeback at Cheltenham,” Wyer said yesterday.

“So I must ride by the weekend really if I’m going to make it to the Festival.”I’ve been having physiotherapy, but I definitely won’t be riding at Catterick. I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll be back towards the end of the week.”This latest thing is only temporary but it’s disappointing because things had gone well since my comeback. I had four winners from nine rides.”n Strong Promise, the Queen Mother Champion Chase hope, has also been entered in the Cathcart Chase. Chris Kinane, assistant to the gelding’s trainer, Geoff Hubbard, said: “It is only a precaution in case he fell early in the Champion Chase.”. Before the Lord Mayor’s Show comes the Imperial Cup (Handicap Hurdle) and although Saturday’s Sandown race suffers by its proximity to the Cheltenham spectacular next week, it remains one of the year’s most competitive handicap hurdles. It also offers a pounds 50,000 bonus from the race’s sponsor, Sunderlands bookmakers, to the connections of any horse that can add next week’s Vincent O’Brien County Handicap Hurdle to Imperial Cup success.
Moody Man was the last horse to complete the double in 1990 and this year Star Rage – who won the County Hurdle last year – may make the attempt.Jimmy Harris, his trainer, said: “Star Rage is in good form We are aiming at that bonus.

He won at Carlisle the Monday before he won last year’s County Hurdle so he will have two extra days’ rest this year.”Among Star Rage’s rivals at Sandown could be Shining Edge, also a County entry, who beat Harris’s tough hurdler at Doncaster recently. “We’ll make a decision later in the week but Shining Edge won’t run in both races,” his trainer, Tim Easterby, said.n The Queen Mother Champion Chase candidate Martha’s Son will school over fences after racing at Bangor tomorrow.RICHARD EDMONDSONNAP: Copper Thistle(Leicester 4.20)NB: Live Project(Lingfield 3.40). At the beginning of the Five Nations’ Championship, I invested (as the bookmakers like to put it) pounds 100 on France to win the competition at 15-8 England were odds-on favourites. After an hour at Twickenham on Saturday, with England up by 20 points to six, I was saying goodbye to my money and thinking the bookmakers were not such fools after all. But then, I told myself, I was the victim of bad luck – or, rather, of the French team’s bad luck. How could I be expected to know that Emil Ntmack, Thomas Castaignede, Philippe Saint Andre, Olivier Roumat and Philippe Benetton, to name but a few, would all be unavailable for one reason or another? As things turned out, their absence (with the possible exception of Roumat’s) did not make much difference. Indeed, some of them may find it difficult to effect re-entry into the French side.
Presumably the ideal centre pairing is now Castaignede and Christophe Lamaison.

The new wings, David Venditti and Laurent Leflamand, did everything that was asked of them. In fact, Leflamand did a little more by stealing the ball from Tony Underwood, who combines the blessing of great speed with the curse of bad luck.Castaignede is reportedly off to Newcastle, meanwhile continuing his engineering course at Durham University. Whether France will continue to pick him in these circumstances remains to be seen. Jean-Claude Skrela, the French coach, was asked this question in general terms at the post- match press conference. What would be the French attitude towards players coming over to perform regularly in the Courage Leagues? He seemed slightly embarrassed and answered that they would meet that problem when they came to it.But the problem is already there, though only in a small way as yet. Philippe Sella of Saracens has retired from international rugby.

Laurent Benezech, Laurent Cabannes and Thierry Lacroix, all of Harlequins, have not retired, as I understand the position. Admittedly the first two are in the evening of their careers, but Lacroix is in mid-afternoon.The Scots have always been at ease with English-based players The Irish are becoming more so. Indeed, their indigenous players have been crossing the Irish Sea with the ease and rapidity of the old Celtic saints. “Bishop” Brian Ashton holds the position in rugby formerly occupied by Saint Jack Charlton in football.

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