Hillcrest will miss the whole of the National Hunt season due to injury.

Hillcrest will not run again this season after the 9-4 favourite failed to fire in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Whitehotchillifili can pep up Sunday’s racing action by winning the Kenneth Cox Memorial Mares’ Handicap Hurdle at Chepstow.

Henry Daly has given Hillcrest the green light to run in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham next week.

Exciting novice hurdler Hillcrest has been pleasing connections in additional schooling sessions with Olympic gold medallist Laura Collett.