Ollie Magern, the popular veteran owned by Roger Nicholls, from Milcombe, near Banbury, could make his comeback at Warwick tomorrow following a year off with injury.

Now a 14-year-old, the gelding looked to be heading for retirement after fracturing a bone in his off-fore leg last year.

But he has made such a good recovery that trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies has entered him in the Willoughby De Broke Hunters’ Chase.