Willie Mullins heeds advice from Ruby Walsh over Arvika Ligeonniere's future Clearly Mullins has taken the hint from his jockey and Arvika Ligeonniere will now head for the Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas and not the King George at Kempton, in which he is also entered. "He definitely heads to Leopardstown and not Kempton," said Mullins. The unfortunate early fall of Mullins" Sir Des Champs in the John Durkan has been on the trainer's mind ever since he heard of the mishap. The first thing I will be doing when I get back is to look at the video of the race. I've seen still photographs of the fall, but I will be having a look at the race straight away and then talking to connections," he said. Mullins has made no secret of the fact that the Cheltenham Gold Cup is a long-term project for the talented chaser and that he will be looking at the most suitable route to the Festival. The Lexus at Leopardstown over Christmas was always the plan, and I imagine it still is the plan. We'll look at the King George, but my first reaction is that after what happened on Sunday is you wouldn't be going there. But we will still look at it. I'll talk to my jockey and see where we take it," he said. Another doubt for the Boxing day race is 16-1 chance Captain Chris. Trainer Philip Hobbs plans to run last year's King George runner-up in the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon on Thursday and believes that there is probably too little time between races for Captain Chris to fulfil his engagement at Kempton. Paul Nicholls, meanwhile, has announced plans for a two-pronged assault on the King George, a race he has won six times in the past 15 years - when he saddles Al Ferof and Silviniaco Conti. Speaking at the William Hill Winter Festival Lunch, Nicholls said Al Ferof has "done a lot of schooling and is really fit and going well." Al Ferof won a match at Ascot in November and Nicholls was keen to emphasise that the horse is from a family of stayers and despite taking a lot of work, everything points to the horse being well suited by three miles, although he has never run over further than two miles and five furlongs. Nicholls also stated that Silviniaco Conti needed the run at Haydock when third to King George favourite Cue Card in the Lancashire Chase and said: "He's been hard to get fit this year and looking at him before the race at Haydock he looked like he was carrying a few too many kilos. He's definitely a lot fitter now.