Injury-plagued Legal Right was among 40 entries published today for the Tripleprint Gold Cup at Cheltenham.
Jonjo O`Neill`s charge, winner of the corresponding event 12 months ago, has been allotted 10st 4lb for the two-mile-five-furlong handicap on Saturday week.
Legal Right has been off the course since, having injured his off-fore in February.
Plans to run him in the Thomas Pink Gold Cup at Cheltenham earlier this month had to be scrapped when the gelding suffered a recurrence of the lameness that has dogged him over the past year.
With the top-weight See More Business set to go straight to Kempton for the Pertemps King George VI Chase and the second horse in the handicap Florida Pearl also a probable absentee a substantial weights rise is on the cards.
Martin Pipe has entered seven, including Lady Cricket who won the Thomas Pink Gold Cup.
The mare ran below her best over a longer trip when tackling the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup over three and a quarter milesat Newbury last Saturday.
Charlie Mann hinted that Celibate (9st 6lb), pulled up in the Thomas Pink Gold Cup, was a probable runner on Saturday week.
'He`s pulled a few muscles in his back but he seems to be over his problems now,' he said.
