11.   Next Saturday the big race is the Guinness Champion Stakes at Leopardstown and with Market Booster in the field we could be looking at a future star.

12.   For Reid, winner of the Derby last year on dr Devious, this is another big race chance in what has been his best ever season.

13.   MERSEYSIDE MPs today came to the defence of Grand National flagman Kenneth Evans the man blamed for the big race fiasco.

14.   Malton trainer Jimmy FitzGerald has withdrawn Gold Options from the big race after watching Trainglot fail to complete a circuit in the Sun Alliance Novices Hurdle.

15.   He is not in any other big races, which are closed anyway, so we might as well let him down and stop work with him.

16.   That will, of course, ease the way for Britain to join Europe and Ireland and run big races at Sunday fixtures.

17.   In the big race, the champion hurdle, the favourite, was well beaten.

18.   Tomorrow the highlight and the big race is the Queen Mother Champion Steeplechase.

19.   And Her Majesty was in the parade ring to assess the runners and riders for the big race, the Queen Mother Champion Steeplechase.

20.   Lambourn trainers are used to winning big races.