Ben Pauling’s mare was a notable absence from the nine entries - which includes Kitzbuhel - for Saturday’s Virgin Bet Scilly Isles Novices' Chase. at Sandown. The impressive Warwick winner Diva Luna had been expected to line up in the two-and-a-half-mile Grade 1, but Ben Pauling revealed to host Nick Luck on his Nick Luck Daily Podcast that the seven-year-old had knocked a joint and would instead ‘have a week in the spa bath’....
