THE ONE match up that we wanted to see today was CONSTITUTION HILL versus Lossiemouth in the Unibet International Hurdle (Cheltenham, 3.00) but sadly the Willie Mullins’ trained mare was taken out on Thursday and will most probably run next at the Dublin Racing Festival at the beginning of February.

Thoughts were divided on the comeback run of Nicky Henderson’s champion in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton Park on Boxing Day, but there is little doubt that he would have needed the outing, and he will go off a very short price here.

On my private ratings there is nothing in the same parish on the figures, I have the eight-year-old 32lbs clear of anything else, so it doesn’t need an oracle to tell you that a clear round should suffice.