Long Run could tackle the £100,000 Kempton Park Chase at the Sunbury track on February 22 as a step towards a crack at the grand national. Owner Robert Waley-Cohen is keen to go for the world's greatest steeplechase at Aintree in April with his 2011 Cheltenham gold Cup hero. Long Run has failed to trouble the judge in three starts this term and unseated his amateur rider, Waley-Cohen's son Sam, at the final fence
when in fifth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton. "I have to say this year hasn't gone at all according to plan and he's not been in the prize money for any of his three runs," said Waley-Cohen. "His next race is pencilled in for February 22 at Kempton. "If he struggles off 163 round there, there's absolutely no point in going for the gold Cup, but if he wins by a country mile then you'll have to put it back on the agenda."