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Seven for Nicholls in Greatwood
- Updated: October 27, 2016
Zubayr is among seven Paul Nicholls entries as the trainer goes for back-to-back wins in the StanJames.com Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham.
The £100,000 Grade Three contest is the highlight of the third and final day of The Open at Cheltenham on Sunday November 13 and a total of 37 entries have been received for the 2016 renewal.
Champion Nicholls was on the mark last year with Old Guard last term and has seven potential runners this time, including Grade Two scorer Zubayr and All Set To Go, who was runner-up in a valuable handicap hurdle at Haydock in May, as well as last season’s Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle victor and runner-up, Diego du Charmil and Romain de Senam.
Philip Hobbs, victorious four times in the Greatwood, has the 2014 scorer Garde La Victoire engaged, as well as the BetVictor Gold Cup, plus Sternrubin, winner of a competitive handicap hurdle at Ascot last season, and the unexposed Ozzie The Oscar, successful on three of his four starts over hurdles.
One horse already on the mark at Cheltenham this season is Sceau Royal, impressive at The Showcase in the Masterson Holdings Hurdle when he had Ben Pauling’s Leoncavallo in second, Adrien Du Pont (Paul Nicholls) fourth and Wolf Of Windlesham (Stuart Edmonds) back in fifth. King has also made an entry for …
