'We’ve always thought of him as a stayer and I’m dying to up him again in trip'

Le Prezien
7g Blue Bresil - Abu Dhabi
JP McManus
/2381P-2
RPR 161c, 152h OR 156c, 152h
Following a couple of near-misses in the autumn he came good in the Grand Annual, where a fast-run race over 2m obviously suited him. I still think he’s every bit as effective over 2m4f. He starts the season on a career-high and life won’t be so easy from now on, so we went back over hurdles for his first run and he ran a tidy race at Ffos Las. He’ll get entries in all the big handicap chases.

Paul Nicholls with Le Prezien (Kate McCormack) walk off the round gallop at Manor Farm StablesCredit: Edward Whitaker

Lisa De Vassy
3f Cokoriko - Mona Vassy
Mrs Johnny de la Hey
1-13 (Flat)
RPR 88 Flat
She’d won her first two starts on the Flat in the south of France before finishing third in a Listed fillies’ event at Saint-Cloud. As she’s not the biggest in the world we wanted to make sure she could jump, so Harry Cobden went over to France one morning to school her before we bought her. She’s really quick at her obstacles and ready to roll.

Magic Saint
4g Saint Des Saints - Magic Poline
Mr and Mrs John Cotton
111135-
RPR 134c OR 145c
Very interesting arrival from France. Only four, he’s already won four times at Auteuil, twice over hurdles and twice over fences, and we're lucky to have him. He reminds me of Unioniste, who had very good form over fences as a four-year-old. Chasers of that age still have a useful allowance in handicaps this side of Christmas and we’ll do our best to take advantage of that. I’ll enter him for the BetVictor Gold Cup and hope we might sneak in off a low weight. I’m still getting to know him but everything I’ve seen suggests he’s a really nice prospect. I suspect he’ll want some cut and he should stay well.