Igor Stimac is suspended so Gary Rowett is likely to replace him

Igor Stimac is suspended, so Gary Rowett is likely to replace him. Jim Smith also has to decide whether to recall goalkeeper Mart Poom and the Italian Stefano Eranio. Poom missed the defeat at Coventry with a shoulder injury and Eranio was out with a hamstring tear, but both have been training this week. Striker Dean Sturridge is likely to be recalled after completing a two-match ban and Lars Bohinen makes his Pride Park debut after his move from Blackburn.Dmitri Kharine’s likely return in goal for Chelsea will be one of a series of changes Gianluca Vialli will make to his Chelsea side following their tiring 1-0 defeat in the Cup-Winners’ Cup on Thursday. Tore Andre Flo and Mark Hughes seem certain to replace Vialli and Gianfranco Zola up front, while Frank Sinclair, Jody Morris, Danny Granville, Laurent Charvet and David Lee could all feature.. THE Grand National will not be the same today. The world’s greatest steeplechase will be run at Liverpool under a pall following the death of Britain’s most notable jumping horse

One Man died at Aintree yesterday.

The successor to Desert Orchid as a great grey which bestrode the National Hunt scene broke a leg and had to be destroyed. His death cast a cloud over the whole meeting.
The Mumm Melling Chase had been characterised by One Man’s trademark extravagant vaulting until the field reached the ninth fence. The grey put in a short stride and crashed sideways through the final obstacle of his career. Ominously, the screens were immediately erected around the stricken body.”It was an extremely serious fracture, an unmendable fracture and for that reason he was put down on humane grounds,” Paul Webbon, chief veterinary adviser to the Jockey Club, said “There are two possibilities. The force of take-off could have caused it, but it’s more likely it was the way he landed over the fence.”Brian Harding, One Man’s jockey, returned to the weighing room in tears, and his owner, John Hales, whose company produces the Teletubbies toys, had to be helped sobbing into a first aid room “I can’t say anything,” he said.

“I’m too devastated.” The body of One Man will be taken back to Hales’s Telford home for burial.Gordon Richards, One Man’s 67-year-old trainer, has been ill and was making his first visit to a racecourse yesterday for a month His son Nicky said: “This is the worst day ever Dad is very upset. He is going to see Mr Hales and after he’s spoken to him he is going to go home.”David Nicholson, another leading trainer, said: “He was a lovely horse, the trainer’s favourite He rode him out and adored him. It’s terribly sad for all concerned and it’s spoilt my Liverpool.”One Man was the highest money-earner in National Hunt training. The one big prize that had eluded him was a Cheltenham win, but only two weeks ago he won the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the National Hunt Festival.Richard Dunwoody, the former champion jockey, was One Man’s regular pilot until this year.

“He was one of the best two and a half mile chasers I ever rode,” Dunwoody said “He had a lovely way about him and he was a brilliant ride. When I was holding him up at Cheltenham in the Gold Cups I wasn’t able to use his jumping. But on the last occasion at Cheltenham he showed just how brilliant he could be.”Tony McCoy, the champion jockey, said: ” Everyone in racing is gutted. He was a special horse, a bit like Desert Orchid.”One Man’s race was not run over the National’s fierce fences. However, the race which was, the Foxhunters’ Chase, saw one horse, Fantastic Fleet, killed and others suffer appalling falls.