FEATURE SPOTLIGHT ON TRAINERS
SPOTLIGHT ON Britain’s Best Trainers
Paul Nicholls and Nicky Henderson are Britain’s two most prolific Jump trainers of the modern era B ased at stables in Ditcheat, Somerset, Paul Nicholls has been crowned Champion Trainer an astonishing 13 times, while Nicky Henderson, based at Seven Barrows, pair, both of whom received an OBE in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the horse racing industry, speak to Graham Clark about the five top
contenders we should be observing closely when the 2022-23 season gets underway…
near Lambourn in Berkshire, has won the title six times. Here, the
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Monmiral “Monmiral is only five, but we have always been excited about going chasing with him. Last season was a bit of a ‘fill-in’ one while we were waiting to go over fences this season. He had a setback after the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle, then he ran two good races in the spring at Fontwell in the National Spirit and up at Aintree in the Aintree Hurdle. “He will start over two miles over fences this season and see where we go from there. He is ready to go novice chasing and he is a very exciting prospect.”
Bravemansgame “He looks fantastic and his number one aim is the King George at Kempton Park on Boxing Day. I might start him off at
Newton Abbot in the race he won
last year if the ground is OK.
We would step him up in class for something else between then and Kempton if he goes that route. We will make a plan after
Christmas for the second half of the season. I’m not sure he wants three-and-a-quarter miles. He doesn’t strike me as being a really big, strong, staying horse like Ahoy Senor. He could be a horse that 2m 5f or 2m 6f might suit better, though he will get three at Kempton. He did very little wrong last season.”
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