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See More still in business

See More Business is none the worse for his crashing fall at Chepstow yesterday, trainer Paul Nicholls confirmed this morning.

But connections have 'almost certainly' ruled out an attempt to land a third King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.

The 11-year-old, successful in the Christmas showpiece in 1997 and 1999, as well as the Gold Cup of that year, was upsides winner Arctic Camper when coming to grief at the second-last in the Tote John Hughes Rehearsal Chase.

Tell-tale screens were erected around the prostrate gelding with many racegoers fearing the worst as he was down for almost five minutes.

But thankfully he made it to his feet - to the cheers of the crowd - and was led away after being only badly winded.

'See More is fine,' Nicholls said. 'He ate up last night and went for a lead out this morning as normal and there`s not a mark on him - he`s 100 per cent.

'When or where he`s going to go I don`t know now but we will find a nice little race for him somewhere.

'He will almost certainly not run in the King George. I don`t want to overface him, he`s been there and done that and it`s a hot-looking race.

'There are other smaller races for him and he comes first now.

'He doesn`t owe anybody anything and it would just be nice to get his head in front in a nice race and look after him.'

The Ditcheat handler was also satisfied with Fadalko`s effort when third in the Mitsubishi Tingle Creek Trophy Chase at Sandown yesterday.

Fadalko was beaten nine lengths behind Flagship Uberalles and Edredon Bleu and Nicholls said: 'He`s in good order. I don`t know where he`s going to run next but he has come out of it very well.

'Traditionally he always a 10lb better horse in the spring - he always has been. But I was very pleased with him.'

Fadalko was putting a rare below-par effort behind him, as he was a distant third behind Best Mate in the Haldon Gold Cup on his previous outing.

'Obviously at Exeter I was a bit worried,' Nicholls said. 'He was a bit flat and didn`t run his race, and he ran a nice race yesterday.

'I`m very pleased with him and spring`s a long way off yet.'

Nicholls added that he thought it likely that Fadalko would miss next weekend`s Tripleprint Gold Cup at Cheltenham, for which he would shoulder top-weight, although plans still had to discussed with owner Sir Robert Ogden.