Looking further forward, it is that time of the year when the big races at the Cheltenham Festival begin closing. Last week we entered Grands Crus and Junior in the Gold Cup as well as Grands Crus and Zaynar in the Ryanair Chase. Tomorrow (Tuesday) the entries close for the big hurdles and we will be entering Grands Crus and Dynaste (pictured right) in the World Hurdle as well as Flying Cross in the Champion Hurdle.
With Big Buck's an absentee it has thrown the World Hurdle wide-open and while Grands Crus and Dynaste will hold preferred engagements over fences, it would be foolish not to give them an entry and at least see what the likely opposition will be…afterall, if you are not in it, you can't win it.
Grands Crus continues to please me at home and while he was fit enough to do himself justice; he has improved again since his fine third in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day. The ground that day was very testing and I am sure that he will be seen to even better effect on a sounder surface, something we should have come March.
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