PNicholls

[u]12:10 Newbury[/u] [i]Hold Fast[/i] This horse is very tricky to train as he has intermittent lameness and foot problems - but he doesn't lack in talent either judged on his seven length defeat of All For Free at Sandown last time. Although we expected him to come on for his reappearance run here and he was well-backed at Sandown, the manner of his victory certainly came as a bit of a shock to us. Admittedly, the form of that race hasn't worked out at all, but the emphatic nature of his win told us that we have to step him up in class and see where he takes us. I'm not saying that he has Grade 1 pretentions at the Cheltenham Festival at this stage - not by a long chalk - but that was the same Sandown race that Master Minded won before winning the Champion Chase in 2008. And St...