Posts tagged Long Walk Hurdle

Can anyone buck the Nicholls trend?

There may be no truth in the rumour that the Office of Fair Trading have received a letter from a batch of trainers, citing the stranglehold that Paul Nicholls has exerted on so many of the feature races of late, but he is again the man they all have to beat.
Big Buck’s will be short [...]

Nicholls chasing big bucks in Long Walk Hurdle

A year ago Paul Nicholls was wondering what do with Big Buck’s.
He had just unseated Sam Thomas at the last fence of the Hennessy Gold Cup, having been bang in contention, and then Nicholls came up with what he admitted at the time was the “mad idea” of sending the horse back hurdling.
 The rest, as [...]