Sceau Royal could head for International Hurdle at Cheltenham

It promises to be another busy weekend and I could run Sceau Royal in the International Hurdle at Cheltenham on Saturday. He's not certain to run but we decided to pop him in after looking at the entries. The plan was to wait to go to Kempton but we'll see how he works on Thursday and if I'm happy with him, he may well take his chance.

I'm looking forward to running Deyrann De Carjac in the Racing Post Gold Cup. He ran pretty well at the November meeting, when he was only beaten by nine lengths and stayed on well, which will hopefully have sharpened him up. We'll watch the weather as he doesn't want heavy ground.

There's a strong chance we could be three-handed in the mares' handicap hurdle. We have Wynn House and Hotter Than Hell, who were first and second at Wincanton last month. The third one is Her Indoors, who was progressive last year and ran well in a Listed hurdle over two miles last time - this step up in trip should suit. I have also entered Twilight Twist in the juvenile hurdle. He won well on his hurdling debut and was beaten at Newcastle last week by a pretty decent horse trained by Dan Skelton.