MARCUS TOWNEND: Shishkin remains rated at 8-1 for the feature race of the National Hunt festival, probably because the horses who chased him home are both without a win since Read more

MARCUS TOWNEND: The horse was the regular ride of Kirkby on the Nicholls gallops and his win prompted an emotional post-race tribute to him from jockey Harry Cobden. Read more

The trainer, who has won Britain’s most valuable handicap hurdle five times, also has top weight Luccia and Under Control in the line-up. Read more

Mail Sport’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Saturday’s meetings at Newbury, Newcastle, and Wolverhampton. Read more

ED CHAMBERLAIN: He has the best horses but don’t lazily assume this has come easy. It hasn’t. Mullins has built up his business organically. Read more

Nicholls-trained horses in action include Hitman, Histrionic, Roman Roy, Diego du Charmil and Jena d’Oudairies. Here, Betfair ambassador Nicholls goes through his six runners on Saturday. Read more

MARCUS TOWNEND: When Harry Dunlop floated the idea of a mental health support network for racehorse trainers last year he braced himself for ‘the piss being taken out of me’. Read more

Mail Sport’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday’s meetings at Kempton, Wolverhampton and Chelmsford City. Read more

Brooks Koepka and Graeme McDowell will fly into Kempton hoping to see their horse Givemefive book his place at the Cheltenham Festival when he runs in the Adonis Hurdle. Read more

Mail Sport’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Thursday’s meetings at Doncaster, Huntingdon, Lingfield and Newcastle. Read more