Klairon set for Sandown

NAAS trainer Arthur Moore has confirmed his Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Klairon Davis on course for the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown on December 7th, despite the gelding's shock defeat on Sunday.

Klairon Davis, conqueror of Viking Flagship and Sound Man at Cheltenham in March, was sent off at 1 to 3 to make a winning reappearance in the three runner Commology Handicap Chase at Leopardstown.

However, having raced freely early on, the seven year old went under by half a length to 14 to outsider Fiftysevenchannels.

But despite Klairon Davis' eclipse, Moore nominated the Grade One Tingle Creek, run over two miles, as the bay's next target.

"Klairon Davis is fine this morning and has come out of the race well," said Moore yesterday. "The plan now is to go to Sandown."

"He jumped very well but he was just a bit free during the early part and didn't have enough in the straight. But the winner has put up a good performance."

Meanwhile, Noel Meade has ruled out a return to Cheltenham for unlucky Triumph Hurdle loser Embellished.

The gelding, who was close up and full of running when brought down at the last in March's big four year old prize on the course, has been entered for the Murphy's Hurdle on Friday.

But the trainer said: "He doesn't run. He ran on the Flat yesterday and had a harder race than I expected.

"Hopefully he will be good enough to go for the goodish races later on in the season.

. John Gosden's Decorated Hero had to settle for second in the Group Three Prix Perth over a mile at Saint Cloud yesterday.

In a cut and thrust race, River Bay, from the John Hammond yard, took it up 300 yards out before losing the lead to Decorated Hero going to the distance.

However, River Bay was far from done with, and Thierry Jarnet's mount, clearly revelling in the mud, reasserted his authority in the final 100 yards to win comfortably by a length and a half.

Despite the defeat, jockey Frankie Dettori was satisfied with Decorated Hero's run.

"With the field racing wide it felt more than a nine furlongs race than a mile event, and he likes it shorter. However, he ran well," he said.