Our star columnist with an early update on plans for some big names for the season ahead.
We’ve had a bit of wetter weather this late summer and early autumn but some of the tracks are still quite firm. So, we’re not in a rush with the horses and we’ll start them going when they are ready – and the ground is right.
I think Anzadam might be good enough to go down the Champion Hurdle route and we’re probably looking at the Morgiana potentially as a starting point. He’s a horse I’d like to go novice chasing with at some stage, but it looks like we’re staying over hurdles this year.
We’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Ballyburn and I think going back over hurdles might be the best option at this point of his career. He could always go back over fences again later on. He would look a really good prospect for the Stayers’ Hurdle and that’s the route I’m going down this year with him.
There’s a possibility he might be ready for the Hatton’s Grace.
