Nicky Henderson

Aidan O'Brien has confirmed that Albert Einstein (Wootton Bassett) is an intended runner in the G3 Watership Down Stud Too Darn Hot Greenham Stakes at Newbury on Saturday. Unbeaten in two starts as a juvenile, Albert Einstein was well beaten on his return to action in the Listed Gladness Stakes at the Curragh, before being mistakenly scratched from the 2,000 Guineas due to what was described by O'Brien as a "computer error". Connections still have the option of supplementing the highly-touted colt for the Newmarket Classic at a cost of...

Star hurdler Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) will lead the Windsor Clive Parade of Equine Heroes during the Lambourn Open Day on Friday, April 3. Other jumping stars signed on for the parade include Altior (High Chaparral), Mister Coffey (Authorized), Coneygree (Karinga Bay) and Champ (King's Theatre). The annual charity event features over 20 training yards opening their doors to the public. From Nicky Henderson's Seven Barrows to a host of Flat and National Hunt yards across Lambourn, visitors will have the chance to get up close to some of the...

Big-time Brit Constitution Hill drew the crowds to Kempton on Wednesday evening and left them thoroughly satisfied with another easy win on his Flat renaissance. Coming off a moderate pace to overwhelm the unexposed Andrew Balding-trained Classical Allusion (Ulysses) a furlong out, the 1-7 favourite made the winning distance two lengths at the line. Ryan Moore was impressed. "He's a gentleman," he said of the nine-year-old who bar jumping frailties would by now have been a legend in the other sphere. "He moved well and I think there's a bit...

Constitution Hill is one of 10 entries for Wednesday's Virgin Bet Novice Stakes at Kempton Park, with Ryan Moore set to take over in the saddle from the suspended Oisin Murphy when the son of Blue Bresil attempts to build on a hugely impressive start to his Flat career at Southwell last month. Trained by Nicky Henderson for owner Michael Buckley, Constitution Hill proved himself an outstanding hurdler when breaking the track record to win the G1 Supreme Novices' Hurdle by 22 lengths at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival. He went...

CHELTENHAM, UK -- Four times a Cheltenham Festival winner and still only seven years old. From the Triumph to two Mares' Hurdles and now the Unibet Champion Hurdle itself, Lossiemouth's love affair with Prestbury Park, the most hallowed ground in National Hunt racing, continued unbroken on Tuesday as the mare landed her 14th win in a career spanning 18 starts - and counting.  The roars of more than 57,000 racegoers carried her home, but in the end it was easy, as Lossiemouth's main danger Brighterdaysahead capitulated between the final two...

Nicky Henderson has confirmed that Constitution Hill will not run in the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on March 10. A Flat career is now on the cards for the star of the jumping ranks, but his trainer said that racegoers will still have the chance to see him at Cheltenham as Constitution Hill will parade at the course to give his National Hunt fans "the opportunity to say goodbye". Henderson and the nine-year-old's owner Michael Buckley have been mulling over options for the horse since his highly impressive...

Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) has been awarded a Timeform rating of 106P following his impressive victory in Friday's SBK Road To Cheltenham Novice Stakes at Southwell. Trained by Nicky Henderson, the nine-year-old was making a belated debut on the Flat at the Nottinghamshire track, but the outstanding ability he'd previously shown over hurdles was there for all to see as he powered clear in the final furlong to win by nine and a half lengths. To put the rating into context, the leading stayer Trawlerman (Golden Horn) has a Timeform...

Owner Michael Buckley is dreaming big regarding Flat targets for Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil), after the nine-year-old trotted up an imperious winner at Southwell on Friday. Although Buckley and trainer Nicky Henderson have yet to make a decision on the gelding's Champion Hurdle participation, several big Flat targets are being discussed at the moment. The two-mile G1 Melbourne Cup is under consideration. Buckley told Nick Luck on Racing TV's Luck On Sunday programme, "I did say to Nicky 'can we agree on one thing, whatever we decide about Cheltenham, let's...

Former Champion Hurdle hero Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) attracted a bumper crowd for his Flat debut at Friday evening's Southwell fixture and sent supporters home contented after witnessing the nine-year-old romp to an impressive 9 1/2-length tally in the 12-furlong SBK Road To Cheltenham Novice Stakes. Bounding along within range of the pace through halfway, the 6-4 favourite was accompanied by raucous cheers when surging forward on the bridle in the home straight and lengthened clear in imperious fashion to easily overpower Square Necker (Zarak) by daylight. "He felt like...

Former champion hurdler Constitution Hill could be seen in action in a new £40,000 1 1/2-mile novice Flat contest at Southwell on February 20, according to trainer Nicky Henderson. A faller for the third time in four trips to the post since his race in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle in November, the son of Blue Bresil will hopefully receive a confidence boost in this new endeavour ahead of a try at the Champion Hurdle later this year. Part of the Friday Night Live series, the new race meets...

Nicky Henderson has been awarded the Willie Stephenson Memorial Trophy, which commemorates the person or person whom the Goffs UK Board feel have made the biggest contribution to the success of the company during that year. The award was presented at Newbury this past Saturday. Training out of Seven Barrows Stables, the multiple champion trainer has had many talented horses pass through his care, not least Goffs UK alumni Constitution Hill (Blue Bresil) and Jonbon (Walk In The Park), who have won 18 Grade 1 races between them. Said Goffs...

Powerhouse jumps trainers Willie Mullins, Dan Skelton and Nicky Henderson clashed on potential Triumph Hurdle candidate Fantasy World (Make Believe) on day three of the Autumn Horses-In-Training at Tattersalls, with the 103-rated gelding destined for Seven Barrows after agent Jerry McGrath struck the 600,000gns winning bid. McGrath had to see off a determined challenge from Harold Kirk on behalf of Mullins - who has drawn a blank this week - while Ryan Mahon, bidding on behalf of Skelton, filled the role as underbidder.  Fantasy World was sourced by Luke Lillingston...