PNicholls

Collectively, I have got the best set of hurdlers I have ever had at Ditcheat. And I can tell you that the race that has so far eluded me that I most want to win is not the Grand National - it is the Champion Hurdle. And I now have three live, if outside, hopes of doing so. Perhaps four if you include Sanctuaire, though he is rated 150 and is stranded in no-man's land, I fear. Triumph Hurdle winner Zarkandar remains my number one for the Champion Hurdle but I am in no rush with him, and it wouldn't concern me in the slightest if we waited and went straight to the Kingwell at Wincanton in February. He got cast in his box a while ago and knocked his hind shin bone, but he is fine now. But plans are open for my two up-and-coming hurdlers in Brampour and Rock On Ruby, and I very...