Douvan top Tingle entries

Arkle Trophy winner Douvan heads the eight possible runners for Saturday's Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown.

Douvan has won 11 of his 12 starts with his only loss coming on his racecourse debut in France before he made the switch to Willie Mullins' yard and he is the hot favourite to add the Grade One to his list of victories if he gets the go ahead to make the trip to the Esher course.

Having been off the track since winning at the Punchestown Festival, the six-year-old is being lined up to run in either the Tingle Creek of the Hilly Way Chase at Cork on December 11.

Mullins has also entered Un De Sceaux in the two-mile feature but he is unlikely to run both horses at Sandown.

Gary Moore, meanwhile, is considering running both Ar Mad and Sire De Grugy in the race.

Ar Mad has not run since February because of injury but he is almost certain to take his place with Sire De Grugy, winner of the race in 2013 and 2015, another likely runner.

"It's 99 per cent Ar Mad will run in the Tingle Creek. He also has an entry in the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon on Sunday, just in case," Moore told At The Races.

"If they raced on Saturday I honestly think the way Sire de Grugy beat Vaniteux (at Ascot), I think he would beat Ar Mad this week, but there would probably be a different outcome at the end of the season."

Tom George is also double-handed with God's Own and Sir Valentino entered, while Gordon Elliott has the option of running The Game Changer.

The entries are completed by the Paul Nicholls-trained Vibrato Valtat.

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