REDI AND WAITING
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TOP JCB Triumph Hurdle fancy Redicean targets a Kempton hattrick in the Grade Two Adonis Juvenile Hurdle on February 24 prior to the top two-mile juvenile event at the Cheltenham Festival.
The Alan King-trained fouryear-old, who is a 7-1 chance for the Grade One prize on March 16, has won two from two over hurdles.
After a victory at the Sunbury track over Christmas, he defied a penalty to score a dominant victory at the track earlier this month.
“He won’t go to Cheltenham Trials Day,” said King. “If I had another week before Trials Day at Cheltenham he might have gone, but it is only a fortnight after his last run.
Pleased
“He will go for the Adonis now and that then gives us 20 days from there to get him ready for the Triumph Hurdle.
“I don’t know where people are coming from saying that he didn’t jump well last time, as I thought he jumped absolutely fine. I was very pleased with his last run.
“He has beaten nothing yet, but just the way he is doing it is very pleasing.”
The Barbury Castle handler has not ruled out running Mia’s Storm in the RSA Insurance Chase at the Festival.
The eight-year-old mare saw her unbeaten run over fences come to an end on her first start at Grade One level after falling in the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.
King said: “She is fine and is just on the back-burner. We are just ticking away with her and we won’t run again until we get good ground.
“We might go for the RSA Insurance Chase or we might wait and go to Aintree.” ®