Nicholls hunting another big Wincanton haul as Present Man heads powerful team

Leaves falling from the trees, longer nights and shorter days plus the prospect of a morning frost in the garden.

The seasons have changed, but it is only now, on the first full weekend in November, that the passing of the baton between codes officially takes place.

Meetings at Chepstow and Cheltenham are heralded as the beginning of the jumps season, but on Saturday the winter discipline takes up the mantle as the British and Irish Flat turf seasons conclude.