Henry De Bromhead keeps Mares' hurdle option open for Honeysuckle at Cheltenham
Quite what the impact of staging a rescheduled Durkan so close to the Christmas action is hard to know, particularly in relation to any appearance by the Gold Cup favourite Galopin Des Champs who had been declared to run at the weekend.Market Rasen and Plumpton were cancelled on Sunday, on the back of Saturday’s cards at Cheltenham and Doncaster also being called off. Tuesday’s Wincanton meeting has already been cancelled while Thursday’s Exeter card must survive an inspection on Tuesday.
The mare lost her unbeaten record at Fairyhouse in the Hatton’s Grace but has pleased the trainer with how she has emerged from that. February’s Irish Champion Hurdle could be her next target although a Cheltenham objective afterwards is no longer clear-cut. “We can look at the Mares’ Hurdle, that’s always another option. It would be very much in my mind. My job is to try to find the race I think she can win. If connections want to do something else, I’ll wholeheartedly do that as well, so we’ll see. That’s all a long way away and everybody has to get there. Let’s see how we go in the Irish Champion Hurdle,” De Bromhead said on Sunday.
Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column
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