Jodami fit for Whitbread

Three of the North's top chasers, Scotton Banks, Morceli and Jodami, are on course for Saturday's Whitbread Gold Cup at Sandown - the last major event of the jumps season. Jodami, with 12st in the Whitbread, had a similarly austere burden when second to Feathered Gale in the Irish National. "He has come on for that run," Anthea Farrell, daughter of Jodami's trainer, Peter Beaumont, said.

Betting: Tote: 9-2 Scotton Banks, 7-1 Feathered Gale, Morceli, 8-1 Life Of A Lord, 9-1 Jodami, Young Hustler, 10-1 Barton Bank, General Rusty, Superior Finish, 12-1 others.