IT really is Super Saturday this afternoon at Kempton Park, with the William Hill King George taking centre stage on a cracking eight-race card.

Kauto Star bids to make history in the feature event at 3pm.

If he does pass the post in front he will be the first horse to win this prestigious prize five times in a row.

With Ruby Walsh still nursing a broken leg, champion trainer Paul Nicholls has snapped up the champion jockey and BBC Sports Personality of the Year AP McCoy.

Although it will be the first time McCoy has ridden the star 11-year-old, he did travel to Nicholls’ yard earlier in the week to sit on the horse at home.

Nicholls, who continues to churn out the winners, reports everything has gone to plan for his record-breaking inmate, saying: “He is fit and ready to go.

“When you are running in a Grade One in that sort of company it’s always hard to win, but we’re happy with the way he is and his record is second to none.

“There’s no point going into the race being negative. We’re positive and think he’s well.”

If he is well, the other eight runners are competing for second place and that position could also go to Nicholls as his other runner, The Nightingale, has been well backed throughout the week.

In the previous race, the Williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle, the top two-mile hurdlers are on show, including last year’s Champion Hurdle winner Binocular.

Starluck has conditions to suit, with the sharp two miles on a flat track ideal for the sixyear- old, and is respected. But Binocular can prove he is the best in the land.

Third on his first run at Newbury, he will strip fitter for that outing according to trainer Nicky Henderson: “He’s lighter than he was three weeks ago. He’s big and well still, but it’s still a long way to March and I think we are all aware of that.”

Closer to home there is a seven-race card at Wetherby this afternoon. Action is due underway at 12.30 and John Wade can have another winner with Deuteronomy, who runs in the handicap chase at 2.35.

Wade, resting up after breaking his left leg in a skiing accident, has his horses in great form and that was advertised to good effect at Catterick on Thursday, when General Hardi came home in front in the North Yorkshire Grand National.

Deuteronomy was a winner at Haydock on his penultimate start before running with credit when runner-up at Uttoxeter last time out.

In a race that won’t take a lot of winning, the admirable 10-year-old could take some stopping under Graham Lee, who had a double yesterday at Musselburgh. Victory would give the trainer some welcome pain relief.