Tuesday’s racing round-up brings the news that Banbridge could be set to take on Galopin Des Champs for the first time in next Friday’s Boodles Gold Cup…

Connections of Banbridge have stated that he could be in line to take on Galopin Des Champs for the first time in next Friday's Boodles Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. The Joseph O'Brien-trained King George VI Chase hero had been set to contest the two-and-a-half-mile Ryanair Chase on the Thursday of the festival, but with conditions continuing to dry out, a crack at the blue riband event could be on the cards. Banbridge is a general 4/1 chance to dethrone Galopin Des Champs in the Gold Cup.

Harry Derham's talented mare Queens Gamble will contest the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival next week. A winner of three of her five starts over hurdles, Queens Gamble does hold an entry in the Coral Cup but with Brighterdaysahead now confirmed to be running in the Champion Hurdle, connections are happy to take their chance in the Grade 2 event. The seven-year-old has winning form at Cheltenham in the shape of two bumper wins and was by far from disgraced when sixth in a competitive handicap hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Talented French performer Gold Tweet will not run at the Cheltenham Festival this season, according to his trainer Gabriel Leenders. The eight-year-old ran out a shock winner of the 2023 Cleeve Hurdle on New Year's Day before finishing eighth in the Stayers' Hurdle later that season and had options of the Ultima, Coral Cup or a return visit for Thursday's feature Grade 1. However, Leenders has now revealed he will instead stay in France to follow the French programme.

David Menuisier's popular stayer Caius Chorister looks set to visit City Of Troy after being retired from racing following her lacklustre performance in the Nad Al Sheba Trophy at Meydan last month. Owned and bred by Clive Washbourn, Caius Chorister climbed the ranks in sensational style throughout her career, going from a mark of just 53 to reach an official peak rating of 109. The daughter of Golden Horn has rubbed shoulders with some of the best stayers in Europe in recent years and enjoyed notable success on the track, highlighted by her victory in the Group 3 Prix Belle de Nuit at Saint-Cloud in October.