AFTER All-Weather Championships finals day at Lingfield yesterday, it’s Betway Challenger Series finals day at Haydock today. Six races, each with a £35,000 prize fund, and two of them could come down to a showdown between Dan Skelton and Nicky Henderson.

Skelton runs Ashtown Lad in the Betway Challenger Stayers’ Hurdle. The Flemensfirth gelding was pulled up in the Grade 2 River Don Hurdle at Doncaster in January the last time we saw him, after which it was reported that he had blood in his trachea, but he has had a nice break and a wind operation since then.