Final season’s star juvenile hurdler Sir Gino is ready to embark on a profession over fences this time period, his coach Nicky Henderson has confirmed.
The French import was sensible in profitable his first two begins in Britain, with a 14-length victory at Kempton over Christmas adopted by a 10-length defeat of the high-class Burdett Street in a Triumph Hurdle Trial at Cheltenham in January.
The four-year-old missed the Triumph Hurdle on the Pageant in March, however signed off with a complete Grade One victory at Aintree and his connections have spent the summer season deliberating whether or not to move down the Champion Hurdle route this season or swap to the bigger obstacles.
On Tuesday, Sir Gino did characteristic among the many entries for the Preventing Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle on November 30, the acknowledged comeback goal of his illustrious stablemate Structure Hill.
Nonetheless, Henderson later informed Unibet: “After a lot dialogue with Joe and Marie Donnelly (homeowners), Nico (de Boinville) and myself, we now have come to the conclusion that Sir Gino will go chasing this season.
“Clearly we now have Structure Hill, and there’s additionally State Man (additionally owned by the Donnellys) who’s severely within the equation, so the choice wasn’t a comparatively exhausting one.
“Sir Gino has already schooled over fences and jumps very nicely, so I believe the factor to do is go down this route and if issues do not go to plan, we will at all times revert again to hurdles, which we did very efficiently with Buveur D’Air a number of years in the past.
“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.”
Structure Hill is being ready for a return within the Preventing Fifth on November 30, dwell on Sky Sports activities Racing
Sir Gino might start his chasing profession in a race the coach has used efficiently earlier than.
He added: “The plan is to start him off at Kempton on November 25 in the two-mile-two-furlong 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 within the Preventing Fifth, however that’s nothing greater than speculative in case something, God forbid, would imply Structure Hill is unable to run there.”
