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Amateur rider Lucy Turner will be lining up in one of the Christmas holiday period’s most famous races, Wetherby’s Rowland Meyrick Chase.

Turner (pictured above), who partners Didero Valis for her boss, Venetia Williams, said: “I was quite surprised when they said I would be jocked up on him. I schooled him last season when he was a novice and he’s a super jumper, but he’s a cheeky boy and likes to have a good buck.”

With two winners under Rules in recent weeks the Turner/Williams partnership is in good form, and the rider said: “The horses are all running out of their skins, and Didero Valis has a lovely weight. It will be tough, but if you are not in it you cannot win it.”

Ten runners are set to line up in Boxing Day’s Rowland Meyrick Chase (2.10) – first run in 1957 it has been won by some top-class chasers down the years, including Gold Cup winners The Thinker and Forgive n’Forget.

Other point-to-point links over the Christmas period include a first run for Ramillies since joining trainer Willie Mullins. Trained by Sophie Lacey to win at Ottery St Mary last season, he was then sold for £215,000 at Tattersalls’ Cheltenham Festival Sale to Mullins’ advisor Harold Kirk. Ramillies (pictured below) lines up in a bumper at Leopardstown (3.30).

Friday’s Coral Welsh National includes an entry from the Nicky Martin-trained The Two Amigos. He won five point-to-points in the 2017/18 season for Martin.

Ramillies with vendor Tom Lacey, before selling for 215k to Harold Kirk, representing Willie Mullins