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| JUMPING PROSPECTS author John Morris will host his Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening this Monday at the Old Railway Club in Melling Road, Aintree, starting at 7.45pm.

Morris heads a panel which includes John Parrott, Andy Holding from Oddschecker and National Hunt trainers Charlie Longsdon, Ben Pauling and Harry Whittington.

They will be giving pointers and opinions on the upcoming Cheltenham Festival, which begins a week on Tuesday.

It costs PS10 for entry and you can pay on the night. There will also be a free PS5 Ladbrokes betting voucher on arrival. Doors open at 6.45pm and for more details contact John on 0151-520 0080 or visit his website www.

jumpingprospects.co.uk | WARREN GREATREX may bypass the Cheltenham Festival with progressive novice hurdler Ma Du Fou and head to the Crabbie's Grand National meeting at Aintree next month instead The six-year-old is entered in the Neptune Investment Management Hurdle at Prestbury Park, but may head for a handicap on Merseyside.

Ma Du Fou has won his three outings this campaign, with the most recent in the Listed Sidney Banks Memorial Novices' Hurdle at Huntingdon.

Greatrex said: "We've not had a major discussion with the owners, but he is a horse that mentally is still quite babyish. Do I think that Cheltenham is just maybe a little bit too much for him this year? I think it possibly is.

"I also think Aintree would suit him very well. Whether I go for one of the novices' as he ran in the Sidney Banks off 137 and they put him up two - again it's telling me that I've got to look at one of the handicaps. A two-and-a-halfmile handicap round Aintree would be right up his street.

"It would be great to go with all these horses to Cheltenham, but you have just got to think what would suit them best. Aintree is a flat track, left-handed so it would be right up his street."