Nicky Henderson looks set to keep his top mares apart at the Cheltenham Festival, giving him a shot at sweeping the board in the fixture’s three senior championship hurdle events with Constitution Hill, Epatante and Marie’s Rock.
With Constitution Hill long odds-on favourite for the Unibet Champion Hurdle, the trainer indicated that Epatante would tackle the Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle and Marie’s Rock run in the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle next month.
Britain’s most successful Festival trainer got the answers he was looking for when the pair were among nine of his big race entries, headed by stable superstar Constitution Hill, to gallop on Kempton’s all-weather track.
