Buckley said, “Somebody actually involved in the Champion Hurdle – and I’m not going to go any further than that – called me yesterday to say how happy they were to see the horse back. And said they wouldn’t dream of telling me or Nicky what to do, Nicky is so experienced with horses, but his last words to me were ‘I hope you run at Cheltenham, because to be honest for anybody who wins that race, it’ll be hollow without you there as you’ve got the best horse’.”
Yay the Hill is the moral winner. Let’s just hand connections the trophy now, not make him run, he stays safe and whoever passes the post first on the day can go to the well earned runner up spot, after all who would want a hollow victory? Just look at the miserable faces of Golden Ace’s connections in the winners’ enclosure last year, looked as if they were getting handed a trophy made of poo for all it was worth.