DESTINATION TROPHY BID IS DERAILED

NEXT DESTINATION, as short as 7-1 for the Ladbrokes Trophy, is set to miss Newbury next Saturday, Paul Nicholls warned yesterday.

- DAVID YATES

The nine-year-old was a late scratching from the Betfair Chase — won in emphatic style by A Plus Tard — at Haydock on Saturday after Nicholls reported: “He hasn’t touched one bean.”