Unlucky Sixties Icon has Far East target

Jeremy Noseda is hoping to give Sixties Icon one more run this season, in either Japan or Hong Kong, after the 2006 St Leger winner's "frustrating" effort in the Breeders' Cup Marathon at Santa Anita on Saturday.

The Newmarket trainer was critical of Frankie Dettori's riding of the five-year-old after the race in which Sixties Icon finished fifth to Ralph Beckett's Muhannak after looking short of room two furlongs out, just before the turn into the straight.

"Sixties Icon may head to the Japan Cup or the Hong Kong Vase. He is sound after Saturday's race and gets back today," Noseda said yesterday on his website: http://www.jeremynoseda.com. "Saturday was frustrating in that the horse wasn't given a chance. I was happy with Fleeting Spirit's fourth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (Turf). For a three-year-old filly taking on some hardened sprinters, I thought it was a decent effort and I was more than happy with her performance. I would love to think that maybe we could have another crack at it next year."

The fading Flat turf season may still have another 11 days to run but the weather is decidedly more appropriate for three-mile chases and Nottingham's final meeting of the year today is subject to a 7.30am inspection.

With temperatures set to fall below freezing, clerk of the course Nick Patton explained: "We're having a precautionary inspection because we are forecast three to four millimetres of rain, sleet or snow, followed by temperatures of possibly as low as minus three. We are perfectly raceable at the moment but the ground could be pretty heavy by tomorrow."

The popular grey Monet's Garden, who ran well for a long way on his reappearance at Aintree on Sunday, will be aimed at Huntingdon's Peterborough Chase on 11 December. Monet's Garden was unsuited by the soft ground at Liverpool, but trainer Nicky Richards felt he had to get an outing into the 10-year-old. "The ground wouldn't have suited him, we knew that before the race," Richards said. "All being well, we'll go to the Peterborough and see how we go. I suppose the King George might be a jump too far but he should have improved a lot, fitness-wise."

Smart novice chaser Air Force One will probably miss Saturday's Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby as trainer Charlie Mann is not prepared to risk the six-year-old on the going which is currently reported as good to firm.