See You Sometime is on course for the "Dipper" Novices' Chase at Cheltenham on New Year's Day.

The Seamus Mullins-trained gelding beat My Will by half a length in a Grade Two event at Windsor last month when he jumped better than his rivals to score.

The £35,000 Grade Two Dipper Novices' Chase over two miles and five furlongs has 15 entries, including Control Man, Fundamentalist, My Will and Cornish Rebel.

See You Sometime is also entered in the Unicoin Homes Handicap Chase later on the same card but Mullins said: "I would say at the moment that we are going for the "Dipper".

"I was delighted with his win at Windsor and he's come out of the race in even better form.

"He went there to win and the same thing applies at Cheltenham where he has won twice over hurdles at the distance."

This will be the first running of the race at Cheltenham, the contest having been transferred from Newcastle where it had suffered from abandonments since its inception in 1980.

However, there are no expected weather problems ahead of the Cheltenham fixture.

Clerk of the course Simon Claisse said: "The going is good. We had four millimetres of rain overnight and are forecast a bit more before Saturday. We are not expecting any problems from frost."

Mild weather arrived in time to save yesterday's three jumps meetings in Britain and today's and tomorrow's cards set to go ahead.

Freezing temperatures caused the abandonment of three fixtures on St Stephen's Day and the same number on Monday but yesterday afternoon's programmes at Chepstow, Catterick and Leicester all passed inspections.

There are no problems at Newbury today, which features the stanjames.co.uk Challow Novices' Hurdle.

The track had been frozen "in a couple of places" earlier in the week but raceday clerk of the course Richard Osgood yesterday said: "We're fine.

"We had 8.4 millimetres of rain overnight. We had a little bit of late frost this morning but that's out of the ground already.

"Maximum temperatures today are expected to be about six degrees and overnight of plus one and tomorrow a maximum of nine degrees."

Prospects at today's scheduled meeting at Musselburgh were described by clerk of the course Anthea Morshead as "very good".

Conditions have improved at Haydock Park and tomorrow's meeting is set to go ahead.

The track had been frozen but it has now thawed out.

Clerk of the course Kirkland Tellwright said: "The frost is out of the ground. We could have raced today and the going is heavy."

Officials at tomorrow's other jumps meeting at Taunton are also confident of racing taking place.

Club secretary Bob Young said: "The sun is shining and everything is fine."