No horse out of the 132 runners in the last 10 years has fallen in the stayers hurdle probably even more amazing is only 2 out of 164 in the supreme novice and 2 out of 111 in the Ryanair.
feb 10th 2006 a good crowd turned up at bangor on dee to watch the two best novice hurdlers around black jack ketcham who had won the grade 2 bristol novice hurdle at cheltenham and denman who was an impressive winner of the challow hurdle ran at cheltenham ,bjk was forecast to go of favorite at around 8/11 sadly bjk was declared a non runner,denman went on to finish 2nd at the festival in the sun alliance hurdle,bjk went on to win the spa hurdle by 9 lengths {albert bartlett}and then went on to win the grade one sefton at liverpool ending the season as the top staying novice hurdler.
the rest as they say is history.
good morning magic2/1 fav fell at the 3rd in 2007 feb 10th 2006 a good crowd turned up at bangor on dee to watch the two best novice hurdlers around black jack ketcham who had won the grade 2 bristol novice hurdle at cheltenham and denman who was an