Mary Reveley`s hopes of running Brother Of Iris at Huntingdon on Saturday rose today with news that ground conditions have improved considerably at the English course.
Brother Of Iris is one of 11 entries for the Grade Two Victor Chandler Peterborough Chase and the report that the going is now `good to soft, soft in places and no waterlogging` delighted his Saltburn trainer.
Mrs Reveley said: 'That should be all right for him, I would not want to run him if the ground was heavy down there. He has come out of his last race very well and I want to get another run into him.'
The seven-year-old has not been the luckiest of horses in the past year, having been withdrawn from the Great Yorkshire Chase at the start when blood was spotted coming from his nose.
He was then reported to have chipped a bone in a fetlock in the Racing Post Chase at Kempton and that ruled him out of the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup for which he had been well backed.
Mrs Reveley went on: 'He is fine now and I thought he was going very well before he fell first time out at Wetherby.
'I can`t see anything else for him at the moment after Huntingdon but the Rowland Meyrick at Wetherby on Boxing Day is a possibility.'
