FLAGSHIP Uberalles will miss the Pertemps King George VI Chase at Kempton Park.

Noel Chance's six-year-old suffered an overreach when winning his second Tingle Creek Trophy at Cheltenham last Saturday and his participation on Boxing Day had been in doubt ever since.

Chance said that there would not be enough time to train the horse for the race in view of the injury.

"I'm not prepared to gamble with the horse's future," he said.

"The injury is a lot better but it hasn't cured and as it's on the bulb of the heel it will take a bit of time. I am therefore not running Flagship Uberalles at Christmas and he will probably go for the Game Spirit Chase at Newbury in February.

"He is definitely on target for the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham in March."

Flagship Uberalles had been an 8-1 chance with Ladbrokes for the King George.

qTrainer Richard Hannon has been fined £600 by the Jockey Club's disciplinary committee.

The committee held an inquiry into the case of the Hannon-trained Chaguaramas who tested positive for ibuprofen after winning at Windsor in June.

The Richard Hannon-trained two-year-old reportedly picked up the substance by licking the back of the stable's blacksmith, who had been taking the pain-killer, before her winning debut in the Edward Symmons & Partners EBF Median Auction Maiden Stakes.

However, the committee was unable to establish the source of the substance and was therefore not satisfied that the administration of the substance was accidental and that all reasonable care had been taken.

In other inquiries trainer Brian Meehan was fined £650 and his Azkaban disqualified from second in the Chertsey Lock Stakes at Kempton on September 2 after testing positive for Flunixin.

qLeading sire Seattle Slew is to return to the breeding shed next year after suffering neurological and fertility problems.

Robert Clay, the owner of Three Chimneys Farm, Kentucky, described the news as "a great Christmas present''.

Seattle Slew began to suffer coordination problems in January and, although he underwent treatment, the 26-year-old's fertility subsequently declined. This was the prelude to his temporary retirement from breeding before successful neck surgery at the Rood and Riddle Equine Clinic.

Tests conducted this month revealed that Seattle Slew's sperm quality was back to normal.