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Unibet Champion Hurdle preview: David Ord sets the scene


David Ord feels Tuesday's Unibet Champion Hurdle all boils down to one obvious but crucial question.


Climb into a black cab at Cheltenham on Tuesday morning and you might be opening a door with a picture of Constitution Hill plastered across it.

'Catch Him If You Can' is the tagline.

And for two glorious seasons they couldn’t.

But then came the setbacks.

The disastrous racecourse gallop at Kempton in February of last year, the lung infection that surfaced immediately afterwards that was to go on decimate his own campaign and Nicky Henderson’s Cheltenham plans.

A bout of suspected colic in April saw him require treatment at a veterinary hospital before returning to Seven Barrows.

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