Kicks For Free can supplement last month's classy Aintree triumph with another important success in the Blue Square Novices' Chase at Newbury on Friday.

Paul Nicholls has always harboured high hopes for his seven-year-old once he was sent over fences and he certainly lived up to the hype on Merseyside.

That is not to say he was not a very good hurdler as he got to within a nose of defying top weight in the Coral Cup at Cheltenham in March.

Trevor Hemmings' charge then ran a sound race to finish sixth behind Blazing Bailey in the Liverpool Hurdle at the Grand National meeting.

Not surprisingly, he was sent off a warm order to oblige on his chasing debut last month and had no trouble landing the odds, beating Coq Hardi by 19 lengths.

Kicks For Free looks ready for this step up in class – even at this early stage of his career.

It will not be easy, however, as Ring the Boss, The Market Man and Oh Crick are all more than useful.

But Nicholls' charge really should be winning this if he is to be heading for the major Festivals.

Houston Dynimo was not beaten far into second on his timber bow at Newcastle and should go one better in Musselburgh's Balfour Kilpatrick Supply Chain Juvenile Novices' Hurdle.

The Nicky Richards-trained three-year-old showed decent form on the level in his native Ireland and was beaten just a neck on his first start for new connections.

This track looks likely to suit the ex-Flat performer and he will not have to improve greatly on that initial effort to take an event of this nature.

Gary Moore is one of the best dual-purpose trainers in the business and is equally at home plundering big National Hunt prizes as he is farming out races on the all-weather.

Moore's Mister Ross goes in search of a hat-trick in the Celtic Contractors Handicap at Kempton – and the three-year-old still appears to be ahead of the assessor.

A gelding by Medicean, the were hints of ability in his early races – but nothing to get too excited about.

But racing in handicap company for the first time at Windsor in October he fairly routed the opposition to make his mark of 65 look ludicrous.

He won again racing under a 6lb penalty a week later on the Polytrack at Lingfield, but this time it was harder work.

Given a month off to get over those exertions, Mister Ross needs to defy a mark of 80 here but there could still be plenty more to come.

James Given's Dynamo Dane won what looked a decent maiden for the time of year at Doncaster earlier this month and looks to have been given a lenient mark by the assessor.

He makes his debut in open company in division two of the PA Services St Eventimage.TV Nursery at Lingfield and can go in again.

There were some nice prospects in the Doncaster event – not least the runner-up Al Qeddaaf – but Given's colt soon put the race to bed with an impressive turn of foot and may improve again for an extra furlong.