Nicky Henderson expects Jonbon to come out next in Aintree after his festival defeat.
The nine -year -old was one of four favorites at a big race beaten in Cheltenham, in his case, champion of Mother Chase’s Queen, although he led a glanting race in the second after judging a heel on the heel.
My pension expert Melling chase over two and a half miles on April 4. His port will now call for Grand National Meetur.
“It’s not so much a mistake that got down on the back, it was the beginning and that really brought us to the wrong position from the word go,” said The Seven Barrow Handler.
“It was frustrating, to be honest with you, but you were going there. He laged early and he simply loves to be worse, and he just couldn’t get where he was.
“It’s good, he has to go again and I think he would go to Aintree. Two and a half miles certainly don’t care. I would think we went there and he loves Sandown.
“I guess everyone will come back” doesn’t like Cheltenham. “It has nothing to do with it, he is a perfectly happy around Cheltenham, he just has no luck there.
“He wouldn’t hurt him a little further, so we have to come to Aintree.”
On Cheltenham’s opening day, Henderson suffered a defeat for his second stable star, the Hill Constitution, who left Prestbury Park in shock when he collapsed in a champion obstacle.
The path to Punchownow on May 2. He remains on the table for him.
Henderson said, “He’ll have to get back to school for a moment, but that’s not a problem. We’ll do it and think about what to do next. He’ll run away again, where we’re going to go, I’m not sure, but I would think that Punchestown was most likely.
“It’s the most obvious to do, one thing you have to be careful about in May is the soil of worry, but I’m sure he’ll do the job well there. I would think everything would go well that it would be a plan.”
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2025-03-15 15:32:00
