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Simonsig and Josses Hill may meet in Game Spirit

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Simonsig: Neptune and Racing Post Arkle winner set for Newbury

Simonsig: Neptune and Racing Post Arkle winner set for Newbury

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Jack Haynes 11:39AM 19 JAN 2016 

NICKY HENDERSON has hinted at a potential duel between Simonsig and Josses Hill in the Game Spirit Chase at Newbury next month as he makes plans for his Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase quartet.

Henderson, who has won the Champion Chase with Remittance Man, Finian’s Rainbow and Sprinter Sacre, has a strong hand to play against clear favourite Un De Sceaux, who is set to run in the Sodexo Clarence House Chase at Ascot on Saturday.

Simonsig has not been seen on the track since making a promising reappearance behind stablemate Bobs Worth over hurdles at Aintree in November, though Henderson reports, in today’s Champion Chase ante-post Pricewise in the Racing Post, the talented ten-year-old to be making progress.

Josses Hill has also made just the one outing so far this campaign when falling heavily at the fourth fence in the Grade 1 Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown in December, and Henderson revealed the pair may line-up in the Grade 2 Betfair Exchange Chase (registered as The Game Spirit Chase) at Newbury on February 13.

The trainer said: “Simonsig could run in the Game Spirit. He is getting there and we’re making progress. He was cantering away all last week.

“Josses Hill was a bit sore after his fall in the Tingle Creek but he’s back in action. He’s ready and he could go to Newbury too, but he wouldn’t want it too soft.”

Sprinter ‘looks fantastic’

Simonsig is a best-priced 16-1 shot to gain a third Cheltenham Festival win by landing the two-mile event, while Josses Hill is a general 40-1 shot, and the betting suggests 7-2 second-favourite Sprinter Sacre is Henderson’s best chance of securing a fourth victory in the race.

The 2013 Champion Chase winner has been in sparkling form this season and looks fantastic, according to Henderson, who added the Caroline Mould-owned ten-year-old will not run before March.

He said: “Sprinter Sacre will almost certainly not run now before the festival. He’s training quietly, just started cantering again and looks fantastic.”

Classy Conan back

Henderson’s quartet is completed by 40-1 shot Captain Conan – a three-time Grade 1 winner who has been off the track since pulling up in the Champion Chase in 2014.

The Triermore Stud-owned nine-year-old is entered in the Grade 3 “40 Years of Keltbray” Holloway’s Handicap Hurdle and the Clarence House Chase at Ascot on Saturday, with Henderson keen to get him back on the track.

He added: “Captain Conan is in everything this weekend. He could run over hurdles first and we need to get a couple of runs into him.”

Read what all connections have to say about the leading contenders in this year’s Champion Chase in our ante-post Pricewise special in today’s Racing Post, also available on iPad

 

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