SOME small fields, but still lots of interest today. There’s Defi Du Seuil v Un De Sceaux (the rematch) in the Grade 1 Matchbook Clarence House Chase for starters, and the more rain that falls, the greater the chance that Willie Mullins’ horse will avenge his Tingle Creek defeat.

There’s also the Champion Hurdle Trial at Haydock, the The (sic.) New One Unibet Hurdle, in which Darasso is a fascinating contender. We haven’t seen Joseph O’Brien’s horse since he beat Cadmium in the Webster Cup, a Grade 2 chase, at Navan last March, before Cadmium went to Aintree and danced in in the Topham Chase off a mark of 152.