OUR horses continue in good form and Activist was our 47th winner of the season last week at Fontwell, meaning we have now beaten last season’s total which is great to do with so many weeks of the season still to come.

Activist is a little bit of an enigma; he can either be good or bad in his races but that was actually his second win of the season and his fourth since joining us in 14 starts so we would certainly like a few more like him! He won quite cosily in the end but we do not intend to run quickly under a penalty and hopefully the handicapper will not overreact!

We do not have any entries away from Cheltenham in the coming days but at the weekend Phantomofthepoints and Jilaijone head our entries in the valuable handicap hurdle at Uttoxeter on Saturday. Lady Balko has an entry in the novices handicap chase over three miles and on Sunday Castle Daragh and Vision De Maine are entered at Chepstow. Keep checking the Daily News on the website for the latest information on the stable runners.

Meanwhile, we are off to the Cheltenham Festival where on Tuesday we have two runners who have each way chances. King Turgeon runs in the Ultima handicap chase at 2.40pm while Gericault Roque runs in the 5.20pm National Hunt chase and Jack Tudor rides both.

It would be fair to say this is actually Plan B for King Turgeon after a pricked foot led him to miss his intended target at Doncaster. Thankfully, that came right very quickly and he is absolutely bouncing at home. He is a course winner earlier in the season and he will enjoy the better ground at Cheltenham. It is of course a tough and competitive handicap but if he gets into his usual good jumping rhythm early on then I think he should run a good race off a mark of 139.

Gericault Roque is a horse with huge talent that has unfortunately been fragile and a little difficult to train in recent times. I was pleased with his comeback run at Windsor in January following a long absence where he just got a little tired late on but he has done plenty of work since and is in good form at home. He was second in the Ultima at the Festival behind Corach Rambler in 2022 and has also finished runner up over 3m5f in the Classic Chase at Warwick so we know he stays and he likes the course. He races off a five-pound lower mark than when he finished second three years ago so all things point to a good run and we just need a bit of luck on our side.

American Sniper and Gold In The Rivers are our only other possible Cheltenham runners and they are both entered in the Pertemps handicap hurdle on Thursday. American Sniper will definitely get a run having won a qualifying race while Gold in the Rivers needs a few to come out to get a run. Both horses are big prices for the race so have it all to do but American Sniper will have blinkers back on and could out run his odds on some better going.