Nico de Boinville, who should set up Hill Constitution in Punhetown in 10 days, was taken to Brighton hospital for scans on a possible back injury after taking a fall during the first in the Hous Hous Housing Hardle in Plumpton on Monday of Easter.
The jockey, which is kept in the hospital overnight, was rolling as the guy said to coach Nicky Henderson when the gelding gave him a heavy and falling fall during the first flight. The obstacle, the first of the right house, was then bypassed on the following two circuits while De Boinville was followed by the doctors.
It seems that misfortune has not been far from Hill Constitution lately, having come across its last two departures – in the HURDLE champion And Aintree Hurdle – but he has always attracted a huge crowd alone in his stable with open day of Friday of Lambourn.
His next departure should be in the champion of Punsetown Boodles Hurdle per week Friday, where he would be supposed to meet the statesman and the Golden ace to invent a triumvirate of screaming champion winners by contesting the race. The eight -year -old player is undefeated under the rules when he got up, and although he finished second on his sole departure in point in Ireland, it would be his first visit “at home” since he joined Henderson.
However, Henderson told Nick Luck's Podcast on Monday that Constitution Hill was first to have a training session. “It's very simple,” he said. “If it is 100%, it will go, but if it is 98%, this gallop will be crucial and that it all depends on that.”
The Plumpton race was won by the 14-1 shot formed in Dan Skelton, mainly Sunny, who helped her, with the help of the winners at Chepstow and Fakenham, to restore his advance on Willie Mullins in the reigning race of the Nip-And-Yend-Tuck at £ 50,000 at the end of the day. Between them, the pair has 71 horses entered for Sandown, the last day of the season on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Haiti Couleurs, one of the only two British runners in a 30 -year -old field, won the Irish Grand National Boylesports for the Welsh combination of coach Rebecca Curtis and the Jockey Sean Bowen in Fairyhouse.
The eight-year-old player, who won the National Hunt Chase in Cheltenham in March, was sent from the favorite of 13-2 seconds and was never left from the first two before returning to the 3 century length home away from the 13-year-old heroic at the second now, who finished second in a fourth national. The Quai de Bourbon, formed by Mullins, the favorite 11-2, was an additional 6th lengths in the third.
Haiti Couleurs was the first winner of the British training race since the closure of Jonjo O'Neill in 2014.
Curtis, who has formed good horses on the shores of the Irish Sea but has not lacked star in recent years, described it as “absolutely incredible” after looking at the gelm belonging to the boys Brizzle exceed all his rivals.
“I was a little worried about the ground,” she said on ITV Racing “but he did it well and continued. Sean gave him a nice walk and I knew, coming to the last, he would stay. I am so happy for his owners, they were massive supporters of the court.”
Bowen, who will be crowned British champion Jump Jockey for the first time in Sandown on Saturday, was also in a state of disbelief. “No word would describe it,” he told ITV Racing. “I couldn't get it up to Cheltenham and the owners were very good to let me go back on him. I had the impression that he was only a half-face left alone at the front and I could not believe how much he was going to go, so much so that I thought half that there must be another circuit to go! “
If the Bowen season of 172 domestic winners missed one thing, it was a Grand Prix. “When I was jockey champion, it would go beyond everything, but you want these big winners – it's incredible.”
After the 13 -year -old Allen's famous died a few days after the Grand National led to a discussion on the age limits on horses in the race, the finalist of all second has now advanced a sterling argument for equine oaps. The veteran formed by Ted Walsh will now be retired.
“He was second (to noble Yeats) and third (in Minella Times) in the great Nationals in Aintree and second in two Irish nationals,” said Walsh. “He was aptly named. But apart from winning, it couldn't have been a better result. He took out his heart and you don't mind getting beat if you have no excuse.”
