SCOTT'S PLAYING HIS ACE

GOLDEN ACE is fitter and stronger for her return to Cheltenham in the Grade Two Relkeel Hurdle on New Year's Day.

- MELISSA JONES

Jeremy Scott's trainee turned away Irish 'banker' - and now Champion Hurdle second favourite Brighterdaysahead at Prestbury's Park's showpiece Festival in March.

She then finished an unbeaten four-race campaign with an eight and-a-half length supremacy at the course's April meeting.

But the Ryanair Mares' Novices' Hurdle heroine was soundly beaten on her seasonal return at Ascot in November.