![]() ![]() Whether Jonbon will be there to greet him if he does remains to be seen, but it does not require a great deal of decoding of Henderson’s comment to suspect that the alternative target at Newbury, against less demanding opposition, would suddenly have rather more appeal. “We’ll look at Christmas as well, but he will probably go to Ascot,” the trainer said. And Mullins, it seems, is indeed keen to run El Fabiolo in the Clarence House. “I don’t think we will be going to Ireland and I’m rather hoping Willie will play the same game as us, and we will get ready for a rematch in March.”įrom Henderson’s point of view, this probably makes sense, but he would surely understand too if many racegoers and punters – and Ascot, for that matter – were rather hoping for the opposite. “I can’t see that they will meet on the way,” he said. Nicky Henderson mentioned both the Grade One Clarence House Chase at Ascot in late January and the Grade Two Game Spirit Chase at Newbury a fortnight later as possible targets for Jonbon. Their respective trainers’ thoughts on what they might do in the meantime, though, were interesting in the context of ongoing concerns about the competitiveness of National Hunt racing away from the big Festivals in the spring.
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