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Cheltenham Festival: Nicholls downbeat after 'dire' workout from Old Guard

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Old Guard

Old Guard (noseband, centre): was flat in a workout on Saturday

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Jon Lees 6:30PM 12 MAR 2016 

PAUL NICHOLLS offered a downbeat assessment of Old Guard‘s Stan James Champion Hurdle challenge on Saturday after a disappointing workout.

The champion trainer said the latest exercise by the Greatwood and International Hurdle winner, who is usually a solid workhorse, had been “absolutely dire.”

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“We worked all the Cheltenham horses this morning, Old Guard went to Kempton last week and worked well and has schooled well, but he worked absolutely dire this morning,” he said.

“God knows why. He was always a good workhorse. The girl who rode him was almost crying at the end of it. For whatever reason he was completely flat.

“We got him home he was fine, he ate up, his temperature was fine. That was the first time he hasn’t worked very well.”

Nicholls, who was speaking at a post racing Cheltenham Festival preview event at Sandown, added: “Hopefully he will be allright tomorrow and it will just be one of those things. It didn’t appear anything was wrong but he did work dire. Hopefully tomorrow and Monday he is in better shape than he was today.”

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Conditions at Cheltenham are expected to dry out over the next couple of days with the going for the first day likely to be “a mixture of soft and good to soft” according to clerk of the course Simon Claisse.

He said on Saturday: “We’ve had a dry 24 hours here and the temperature has reached 12 degrees today. That looks like the warmest it will be between now and next Friday. The forecast is dry from now and all courses are soft.

“We expect there to be good to soft places by tea time tomorrow and the ground is likely to be a mixture of soft and good to soft ground for the first day.

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