The correct decision but what a mess they’ve made of this horses career.
Not having the balls to remove Nico from the ride is a large contributor to him not running in the Champion Hurdle. Sure Nico was going to ride Sir Gino anyway.
There’s no doubt in my mind, he’d have won the Champion Hurdle with a set of cheekpieces and a different jockey onboard but they needed to have him in the Kingwell first.
This Yogi Breisner stuff was absolute nonsense. The horses issues were under race conditions and no amount of work at home would change that. Willie rarely schools his at home.
I don’t want to hear from these connections after the Champion Hurdle now ” We had the best horse”, ”Nothing in the race would’ve beaten either of ours”.
Nicky and Buckley haven’t feck up with these kind of comments.