While the injury was just unfortunate, he wasn’t fluent at the previous hurdle and then dived a bit at the one he got the injury on landing.
That I blame connections for. His jumping wasn’t great last time and today, going off at a crawl out the back was the worst thing they could do.
I said before the race that if they did that, there was a huge chance of him diving at one.
Pure arrogance from Nico just messing about as he knows the Skelton Horse really wants to be coming from behind. Having been through crisis after crisis this past few seasons including making a complete balls up in this race last year, Nico was the last person that needed to be getting cocky today.
Henderson said during the week that the horse was more than fine to make his own running.
Overall, sending him back hurdling was just a horrible decision full stop.