Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Bague faces Apple test
LA BAGUE AU ROI will clash with Apple’s Jade in tomorrow’s OLBG Mares’ Hurdle after testing conditions persuaded Warren Greatrex to aim his sevenyear-old at the two-and-a-halfmile test.
Greatrex (right) had considered taking on male opposition in the three-mile Stayers’ Hurdle on Thursday. But the Lambourn trainer said: “When it’s testing over two and a half miles at Cheltenham, you need a horse that stays three.
“Also you are taking on one or two in the mares’ hurdle, whereas you are competing against five or six in the Stayers’.
“There’s more to come from my mare and she’s got every chance.”