AFTER much discussion with Joe and Marie Donnelly, Nico and myself, we have come to the conclusion that Sir Gino will go chasing this season. Obviously we have Constitution Hill, and there is also State Man who is seriously in the equation so the decision wasn’t a relatively hard one.
Sir Gino has already schooled over fences and jumps very well, so I think the thing to do is go down this route and if things don’t go to plan, we can always revert back to hurdles, which we did very successfully with Buveur D’Air a few years ago, and there’s nothing to say we can’t do that again if we have to, but for the time being I’d like to go chasing and he’s coming along very nicely.
After much deliberation we’ve decided to start Sir Gino over fences this season.
Really looking forward to seeing what he can achieve over the larger obstacles.
More to follow.
— Nicky Henderson (@sevenbarrows) November 12, 2024
The plan is to start him off at Kempton on the 25th November in the 2m2f Beginners Chase, which is a race we’ve used for Altior and Shishkin; it’s usually quite a ‘friendly’ race so we think that’s where we ought to try.
He does have an entry in the Fighting Fifth, but that is nothing more than speculative in case anything, god forbid, would mean Constitution Hill is unable to run there.
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