Connections seemed fixated on making him a Gold Cup horse. Once they decided he wouldn’t stay, they lost interest in chasing.
Constitution Hill was a great horse in 2022 and 2023. Unfortunately we never got to see if he could have been even greater still due to a combination of Henderson’s negative campaigning and then the horse going wrong. He hasn’t really been right since his blowout in the gallop at Kempton, which forced him to miss the Champion Hurdle in 2024.
OK, he won the Christmas Hurdle last season – but he had to work quite hard to beat Lossiemouth. He would have laughed at her in his prime.