Nicholls the man to go to as Cheltenham returns on ITV4

Breath Of Air
1.45 Doncaster
2pts winBraqueur D’Or
2.00 Cheltenham
2pts each-way with Hills (six places)Tommy Silver
3.10 Cheltenham
2pts winAbel Handy
3.25 Doncaster
1pt each-way with SkyBet (six places)Raakib Alhawa
4.05 Doncaster
1pt each-way

With only a handful of winners over the summer and just two runners from August to September, Paul Nicholls is not even among the top ten jumps trainers in Britain at the moment, but you can bank on that being rectified sooner rather than later such is the brilliant month he has nearly completed.

No fewer than 19 of Nicholls’ 32 runners in October have finished in the first two, ten winning, and he’s the man to go to when Cheltenham reappears on our screens this afternoon.