The unwise who got their money out as betting shop managers were pinning up The Sporting Life had to make do with 16-1.A medical bulletin was also received yesterday on another beaten horse in the Dante, Nash House. In terms of Classic scares, Henry Cecil has been as productive as the Hammer House Of Horrors this season. The Newmarket trainer, who patched up Bosra Sham to win the 1,000 Guineas, yesterday announced his Derby aspirant, Dushyantor, was off the work roster at Warren Place. Ipswich will be well aware that their opponents, on the way to the final, have accounted for Slough, Balsam Leicester and Chelmsford..

An inquiry is to be held by the Jockey Club's disciplinary committee into a positive urine sample taken from the Martin Pipe-trained Hamilton Silk after the gelding won a hurdle race at Chepstow on 9 March. The four-year-old, formerly trained by Michael Meagher but bought by new connections out of a Bangor seller in December, won the Curre Juvenile Novice Handicap Hurdle at the Welsh track, but has since tested positive to the presence of procaine in a post-race sample. The Horseracing Forensic Laboratory detected the presence of the prohibited substance - a medication which acts on the nervous system to prolong the action of penicillin or as a local anaesthetic.If the committee finds Pipe in breach of the rules, Hamilton Silk could lose the race and the trainer himself could face a fine.Hamilton Silk, a well-backed 9-4 favourite, landed the contest by six lengths from Stan Mellor's Shepherd's Rest.. She has been at Lilleshall National Sports Centre for intensive treatment but still remains doubtful. "With the Olympics closing in, Tammy's first consideration must be to get completely fit," Culliford said. Only three of Ipswich's squad are non-internationals, and with a midfield line up of the former England captain Sandie Lister, Tracy Fry, Debbie Rawlinson and Lucy Youngs, they look formidable favourites.Clifton, seeking their first National title, will be no walkover, though, with their strong Welsh contingent.