His potential on the flat is currently untapped at this stage, if a far inferior hurdler like Wicklow Brave can transition to the flat and win and be placed in two Irish St Legers, be placed in an Ebor, Lonsdale Cup, Ormonde, Long Distance Cup and finish 4th in two Goodwood Cups then it is not that much of a stretch to think that CH potentially could be more than just ompetitive in those same type events.
CH is already a Champion Hurdler and while talent wise he is the best horse in the race it matters not a lick if you can’t jump the hurdles and his mistakes have been exactly the same in each fall, he starts to come up off a long stride and puts down midway through it and lands on the hurdle halfway up it.
Hendo has said before each and every one of those falls that his schooling had gone really well and yet he has hit the deck each time – there is absolutely no way that Hendo can be sure (other than pure hope or wishful thinking) that CH’s jumping issue have been resolved (off the back of another good schooling session at home with Yogi) and to continue hurdling with the horse now is tant amount to training malfeasance.
Deciding his correct future path is not rocket science, yet connections are trying desperately to talk themselves and by proxy the horse into doing something that all recent indicators are screaming at them to avoid at all costs.