The excellent Bet Racing Nation treated us to an early Nicky Henderson interview this week which got some interesting news snippets, most notable that My Tent or Yours could be sent chasing. That would be some Arkle; the front-running Un Des Sceaux tearing into the fences accompanied by MTOY's, unless he learns to settle that it! Thankfully Simonsig looks set to make a full recovery from his season out last year and will be going for the King George, although unfortunately not with Sprinter Sacre, with Nicky set to keep the two apart. Nicky actually nominate the Tingle Creek as the Black Aeroplane's initial target so it seems he will not be changing his superstar's main trip, at least not initially anyhow. You can catch the whole interview here and I urge you to give it a listen if you have a spare ten minutes or so.
Considering I've mentioned Nicky Henderson and the Charlie Hall I should really include the news that the ex-Champion Chaser Finian's Rainbow looks to have the season curtain raiser as his first target for the coming season. Henderson has admitted the days of Finian's having the speed for the minimum trip are long gone, with age and injuries taking their toll, so a step up in trip to see if he can re-capture former successes looks the order of the day. Best of luck to the grand old horse, he has been desperately unlucky with injuries and it would be great to see him back at the top table.
Anyway that's enough for this week, hopefully the next Bet Racing Nation interview, I believe their Road to Cheltenham series has started and will air every Tuesday, will give us some more National Hunt titbits as the excitement builds to the return of the Winter Jumping extravaganza.
