Marshall Aid ran perfectly respectably against a better class of horse at Lingfield yesterday, just finding the hike in class and commensurate pace over the last couple of furlongs a little too much; we will just look to find something of a similar race in a slightly easier grade to get him off the mark; he should make an extremely effective hurdler going forward.

We probably won’t have any runners over the New Year weekend but will take a view of this as we run towards the weekend; we might not have got over the Official Handicapper allocating Pension Madness a mark of 110 . . . . . . . .