Gallops report for Friday January 19 comes with news from Lambourn and the in-form Nicky Henderson team.
JENKINS warmed up for the big handicap hurdle at Ascot tomorrow with a routine breeze this morning.
The former top bumper performer failed to take that form to the table over hurdles as a novice but with blinkers attached came home unchallenged at Kempton last time.
The decision to employ forcing tactics paid off and it's probable that plenty of use will again be made of this ultra talented but mercurial character at Ascot.
BRAIN POWER engaged in a swinging canter up the strip ahead of the Royal Salute Whisky Clarence House Chase at the same meeting.
In a race that has cut up the raw novice finds himself second favourite but with only two outings over fences to his name he has to improve to win.
With Nico de Boinville aboard for the first time he could well be given a chance to settle, the reverse of what happened in the big novice chase at Sandown last time.
CHAMPS and SANTINI are both in good order and moved well in their latest pieces of stronger work on the Farringdon Road grass.
The former in an especially nice prospect for owner JP McManus.
MONBEG LEGEND ran up a sequence of wins in the summer and being by Midnight Legend needs to show he can handle cut in the ground if going to Taunton.
Nevertheless he has been going well at home, and would almost certainly start favourite for that handicap hurdle at the Somerset course.