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The hill fans won’t have time to cry , to busy making up an excuses for his defeat
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
If Constitution Hill doesn’t win the Champion Hurdle, it’ll be for one of four reasons:
a) he doesn’t run
b) he runs but doesn’t complete – falls again or picks up an injury
c) he finishes the race but isn’t as good as he used to be and something else (probably Sir Gino) is better than him now
d) he’s the best horse in the race but unlucky in running (unlikely in a small field, but I wanted the list to be exhaustive)There aren’t any excuses needed.
You might want to read the prev 10 pages or so , full of excuses ..
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
So he’s persuaded someone to put on a £40k race especially for CH. At a Friday night live event at Southwell.
I’m sure Messrs Henderson and Buckley will in great demand at the speed dating!
But it does at least mean we can see the race on ITV.
Be pulled out on the morning of the race due to the Standard going being not quite as standard as anticipated.
Skelton should absolutely banter it and enter The New Lion in this completely=made-up-race-for-Henderson’s-benefit.
I’m all for Constitution Hill running on the Flat, but more had a summer campaign in mind, and with no intention of returning to jumping.
This new race feels rather too like special treatment for one horse/trainer.
This is absolutely bonkers to me.
There was a good hurdle race at Windsor this weekend for him and if not ready for that then the Kingwell would be a perfect prep for Cheltenham.
If Nicky isn’t confident enough to run the horse over hurdles before the Champion Hurdle then the horse shouldn’t be in the Champion Hurdle full stop.
For a horse who’s better fresh, they’re sure cutting it fine with the 20th of February also.
The way they’re going about things, I’m honestly expecting him to fall in the CH again.
Double Powerful has been through hell this season. Unseated and fell in novice chases then switched back to hurdling and unseated again when almost brought down. He’s just bounced back and ran a cracker in the Lanzarote the other day.
I still think Constitution Hill could bounce back but a flat prep is certainly not the way to go about it. The minute he sees a hurdle in March again with the crowd roaring, he’s probably going to panick.Stick him in the Kingwell with a different jockey onboard and a set of cheekpieces to see if some confidence can be built. If that fails then never run him over hurdles again.
To all the people who say Cobden should be on board, perhaps you could persuade McManus to buy the horse.
“This new race feels rather too like special treatment for one horse/trainer.”
Another reason why lots of people find Henderson so irksome.
It has reached the point where I hope the horse loses and we finally find out how good he is now.
I’m no expert but I think it is a dumb thing to do.
Getting him into starting stalls, running on tapeta and running in a race where he will probably be taken off his feet.
I think someone needs to be insisting the horse needs to prove he can get around a hurdle course before he is allowed to run in the Champion Hurdle.The more I know the less I understand.
”I think someone needs to be insisting the horse needs to prove he can get around a hurdle course before he is allowed to run in the Champion Hurdle.”
My thoughts exactly.
Hendo’s going to run him on that flat and if he goes well, he’ll hype him the whole way to the Champion Hurdle. If the horse then falls on Tuesday it’s going to throw a downer on the whole day again. Sick of the man’s absolute nonsense.
The BHA needs to step in but of course they won’t.
It is Henderson. Why would the BHA do anything? It only gave him a token slap on the wrist after a serious drug offence for which any other trainer would have had the book thrown at him.
I think Southwell are quite canny staging a race for Constitution Hill. They’ll get lots of publicity and it will attract a good crowd. They’ve held jumpers bumpers there in the run up to Cheltenham when meetings were being lost and Aidan O’Brien used to give his Breeders Cup horses a spin there at one time. I’m almost tempted to go.
The best thing that can happen in that flat race for us National Hunt lovers is that he gets hammered. If he wins, the hype going into the Champion Hurdle will be through the roof again and then if he falls, the press and anti’s will come down on the sport like a tonne of bricks.
The festival is too high profile to be allowing this nonsense. Tell Henderson the horse needs to prove himself in the Kingwell or similar or he’s disqualified from the Champion Hurdle.
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