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Good! last thing I want to see is a dent in his from from running in some silly hurdle race….won the Hennessy first time out damn sure he can win the Aon.
The whole system is riddled with anomalies – I could give chapter and verse on a horse with a leading trainer that reverted to fences this year and was entered for a handicap despite it’s published official mark being 4lbs above the maximum for the race. Weatherbys rang to inform the trainer his horse wasn’t qualified, to which he replied ‘I spoke to the handicapper last week and he agreed to drop the rating so I could run in this race’.
The horse ran with top weight and won.
The trainer must have better powers of persuasion than most – the old man tries that one all the time and it never works!
Paul Nicholls quoted on the racing Post….
DENMAN will not make his seasonal reappearance over hurdles at Wincanton on Friday, after champion trainer Paul Nicholls decided on Tuesday that the Gold Cup winner "is still about a fortnight off a run".
Denman caused a flurry of excitement when his name appeared among the entries for the Pertemps Handicap Hurdle Qualifier.
However, after he had worked at Ditcheat on Tuesday morning, Nicholls said: "If I had had another fortnight’s work into him he would have run, and the race would have suited him, but I erred on the side of caution."
On his teletext pages Paul Nicholls says…Denman is not quite ready, and there are no plans for him. But he will find some where for him in about two weeks time. He says he’s open minded and it’s a possibility that he could run over fences or hurdles if he can find a race for him, or even a racecourse gallop and then go straight for the Aon. He will talk it over with the owners.
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