Hill surely destined to be one of greats
History will surely be made at Cheltenham when Constitution Hill runs in the Unibet Champion Hurdle.
He may well go and win by the widest-ever margin, but while that is still up for debate, what is not is that he will go off the shortest-priced favourite in the first-day highlight for many, many years.
It is quite incredible to think he has only had five runs in his life, yet we are already talking about him being superstar material and that is because four of them have been at Grade One level and he has won them by an aggregate of 77 lengths.
He really could do for the National Hunt game what Frank el did for the Flat, and in Nicky Henderson he is with the perfectman to make the crossover into the mainstream.
It seems futile coming up with the case against him and while State Man, in any normal year, would be a worthy favourite, he is up against potentially the best horse for generations.
Henderson has made no secret that he thinks Tuesday will be his best day and Jonbon is taken to confirm his superiority over El Fabiolo in the Sporting Life Arkle.
The two met over hurdles at Aintree last season, with Henderson's runner just coming out on top.
The general consensus seemed to be that because it was only El Fabiolo's second run for Willie Mullins he had overachieved and would improve past Douvan' s full-brother.
But do not forget, Jonbon was running just three weeks after meeting with the only defeat of his career behind Constitution Hill in the Supreme, when he undoubtedly had a hard race.
Plenty will crab his most recent run at Warwick, but Henderson has come out and said he was nowhere near 100 per cent fit, and also, Aid an Colemanwas just caught on the hop by Harry Skelton on Calico.
With Dysart Dynamo guaranteed to go off quickly, Coleman will be able to ride a proper race and he is expected to bound up the famous hill.
Byker is an interesting contender for Charles Byrnes in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.
He finished third to Sir Allen at Naas in a race that has an excellent record of producing the Boodles winner with Band
OfOutlaws,AramaxandBrazil all successful in both.
While Sir Allen obviously holdsclaims,hewasgetting7lb off Byker yet will be giving him 3lb on this occasion and there was less than two lengths between them.
That should be enough to see him turn the tables this time around.
In the opening Sky Bet Supreme
Novices' Hurdle a lot depends on which Facile Vega shows up.
He has only ever lost once but that was last time out and it was a major blowout as he was beaten 20 lengths by stablemate Il Etait Temps.