PENDRA will bid to add silver to gold for Chipping Norton trainer Charlie Longsdon when he returns to Ascot on Saturday.

The seven-year-old’s success in the Sodexo Gold Cup Handicap Chase at the Berkshire track at the end of October gave Longsdon his most valuable triumph.

And now the chestnut gelding is on course to run in the Sodexo Silver Cup Handicap Chase over the same three-mile trip.

Kilcooley helped provide Longsdon with his best day as a trainer when running his rivals ragged in the bet365 West Yorkshire Hurdle at Wetherby on the same afternoon Pendra won at Ascot.

And the six-year-old had been set to join his stablemate at the Berkshire course this weekend with his target the Grade 1 JLT Long Walk Hurdle.

But Longsdon reported his rising star will need more time to get ready, and will instead head for either the Relkeel Hurdle at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day or the Cleeve Hurdle at the same venue on January 30.

Longsdon lies eighth in the trainers’ championship having picked up £444,707 in prize money, with 47 winners from 252 runners so far this season.