Tom in for Nick and joined by Racing Post journalist Jonathan Harding. We start with the news tat Jack Kennedy will return to the saddle from Monday and be fit to ride at the Cheltenham Festival this year and Jack is along to tell us more. We hear from new Cheltenham CEO Guy Lavender re the news that the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle will be named after the late Michael O’Sullivan. Guy also looks ahead to his first festival and touches on some important changes this year and his hopes for 2025. We give news on James Bowen appealing his ban which will keep him out of Cheltenham as things stand and also bring news or Eric McNamara’s successful appeal after Mount Ferns was found to have been permitted to run other than on its merits. The Horse Welfare Board’s Pip Kirkby tells us about the growing support behind schooling days on British racecourses and we then turn our attention to this weekend. We hear from Neil Mulholland who has Petrol Head on first start for him in the Morebattle Hurdle and George Scott tells us about plans for West Acre this season who lines up in a Group 3 at Meydan on Emirates Super Saturday.

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