Constitution Hill looks to be heading to Kempton for his next start in the Unibet Floodlit Stakes on November 25th.
The former Champion Hurdler won his second start on the Flat at the track in March but was well held in the September Stakes there in September before finishing fifth in a Group Two in Milan last month.
Connections have been mulling over where to go next and speaking to Unibet, trainer Nicky Henderson said: “He likes Kempton, he likes the all-weather. I’d still rather be on turf. But in Milan we had a bit of bad luck.
"The weekend before I didn’t think we’d be going, it was too quick. Then they had 48 millimetres of rain on the Tuesday night, everyone rang me up and said ‘it’s fine, it’s heavy’.
“So off we went but by the time we got there on the Sunday it was back to good and getting quicker which was a bit unfortunate as some good, soft ground, would have changed things dramatically.”
Henderson was still pleased with the run behind Stingray and says the horse is thoroughly enjoying his new career.
“He’s been running good races. He’s run in two very high-class races. They were Group Twos with proper good horses in there and to be fair the first at Kempton was a prep for Italy. Italy didn’t quite go according to plan I have to admit but with ground and the position he got himself into made it very hard. It could have been better.
“But he’s in great form and if he’s putting on weight doing these things as he is, it tells you one thing. He’s not exactly weary. He’s in good form, he’s loving it, he really does love it and that’s all I can say to anybody. So he's going to be back to say hello to everybody at Kempton we hope."
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