Jade & D'Air could clash at Newcastle Apple's Jade could attempt to go one better than she did last year in the Unibet Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle on Saturday. Winner of the OLBG Mares' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, Gordon Elliott's top-class performer has already shown her well-being this term with victory in the Lismullen Hurdle at Navan earlier this month. Should the five-year-old take her chance at Gosforth Park, she will try to avenge last year's narrow defeat by Irving. Paul Nicholls' charge also took this prize in 2014 but the headline act for the home team will undoubtedly be Champion Hurdle hero Buveur D'Air. Nicky Henderson's six-year-old is joined on the list by Evan Williams' progressive John Constable, Flying Tiger, Katgary and Mirsaale.
