Tidal Upped to Three Miles Last season's Arkle Trophy hero Tidal Bay steps up to three miles for the first time in the skybet.com Rowland Meyrick Chase at Wetherby on St Stephen's Day. Howard Johnson's seven-year-old has never finished out of the first two - but that record may have gone had Twist Magic not tipped up in the Tingle Creek, in which he was also put well in his place by Master Minded. Facing Tidal Bay will be course specialists Ollie Magern and State Of Play, who have fought out the last two renewals of the Charlie Hall Chase at the track. Donald McCain's Cloudy Lane and Racing Post Plate scorer Mister McGoldrick, another Wetherby maestro, are other high-class contenders. Champion trainer Paul Nicholls runs Nozic, a casualty in the Old Roan Chase on his return from a long absence, while Standin Obligation and Borora complete the eight-runner field.
