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- Updated: December 8, 2016
Warren Greatrex is not concerned if he has to go straight to the Cheltenham Festival with talented mare La Bague Au Roi.
Having decided to give the five-year-old, who is a leading ante-post contender for the Trull House Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle, a winter break away from his yard, the Upper Lambourn handler is now considering sending her to the blue riband event in March without a prep run.
After posting wins at Uttoxeter and Wetherby, the high-class bumper performer took her form to new heights when capturing a Listed contest at Newbury.
Greatrex said: “La Bague Au Roi is having a mid winter break at Phil and Mel Rowley’s place in Shropshire where she was broken in.
“She had …
