Realization of what he was up against IMO.

I wouldn't rule out hurdles again, that early season hurdle in October as a possible target.

Duffy, you've been wrong about CH going on the Flat the whole way along....you're at least consistent!

Keep the faith Duffy!

Sorry Whipping Piccadilly that was not meant for you!

Just retire him.
Doesn't owe anybody anything and it's turning into massive damp squib.

He's been entered for the Irish St Leger. Absolutely delusional and a waste of money. The fee could have gone to a food bank. But, Hendo has form; he ran the horse in Ireland post repeated falls, but not when the horse was invincible over hurdles.

Hendo has entered him for the Irish St Leger against possibles Forever Young, Al Riffa, Al Qareem, Dubai Honour, Illinois, Scandinavia, Minnie Hauk, etc. Constitution Hill chickened out in the John Porter against Al Aasy, Convergent, etc.

The journo has allocated an entire page to try and spin this farcical trash. A degeneration of journos at the Racing Post.

Has the obviously decent thing not been done yet??? That being retirement..

How old is he Bubbles? Will he run on firm ground? There is absolutely no point in pursuing a flat career. NONE.

uptheirons,,,,yes. of course, none of us own the horse. BUT, every day after every race punters express their views about how horses were ridden, whether they should have ran in the race, whether their trainers 'had them ready' etc etc etc. And without punters owners would have greatly reduced prize money to run for.

So, racehorses are like football teams - to some degree they are public property. Thus people on here are perfectly entitled to express an opinion about the path C Hill follows.

For whatever reason, you appear to want to defend Henderson who, sad to say, to me seems to have made a hash of C Hill's later career.

The Irish Leger is sometimes a glorofied handicap but, even so, I still doubt whether C Hill will improve enough aged 9 to win that race from where he is currently rated at just over 100.

At Ripon yesterday I was talking to another on-course punter and the view among the very few of us that are left is that Henderson has done a poor job with the horse since his jumping troubles began.

The general view is that Henderson either needs to run the horse a bit more or retire it. Yes, summer going is not ideal for the animal but Henderson has found a lot of reasons NOT to run for over 2 years now (exce;t for two mickey-mouse flat wins).

OK, perhaps that is fair enough (and he certainly knows better than I do about training horses) but he MUST start managing expectations over the animal. He will not even get into a Melbourne Cup, let alone win it.

Nor will he win a Group Race on the flat unless he lucks out in a small field one on heavy going in the autumn - and then he would still be no good thing.

I fear Hendeerson and his owner cannot rid themselves of thinking about how the horse USED TO BE.

He was brilliant for a while but, I tell you what, Night Nurse for one, would surely have put him away with little bother.

Until Henderson takes a more realistic position the horse will remain in this sad situation of so many expecting a reproduction of a brilliancnce that was pretty short-lived and has very probably been lost now.

The one thing that man or beat cannot avoid is how age unravels all of us eventually!!

He was brilliant for a while but, I tell you what, Night Nurse for one, would surely have put him away with little bother.

never understood why people make hypothetical comparisons..a complete and utter waste of typing.

And I only came in to make a joke about Constitution Hill's connections moaning about their bad draw in the French Derby.

Yes. It was the similarity of the names, Con Hill and Con River, the hype, and that connections are getting their excuses in early.