Long way to go for Long Run as he is due participating at the Haydock next month
Practice makes a man perfect and experience makes a horse all the more charming and desirable thus Long Run’s owner Robert Waley-Cohen is all for racing Long Run during this season and in the season to come too.
"Long Run had a great summer. He was just turned out with one friend and he was very chilled out and enjoyed himself a good deal, doing very little”, said Waley-Cohen.
Long Run has ran just twice this season but has been victorious both the times with Mr S Waley-Cohen onboard. On 15th January, it was at the Kempton, William Hill King George 6 Chase Grade 1 that Long Run not only participated in the very first
race this season but he also won the very first race of the same season.
Nick Henderson trained Long Run with Waley-Cohen onboard first tracked the leaders then went second from seventh as the furlongs approached, led the third furlong out.
He was driving clear soon after and finished the race very comfortably without being challenged or pressurized by any of the other contestants on the field.
Long Run’s stable mate Riverside Theatre under Barry Geraghty was the runner up in the race so Nicky Henderson actually had his hands full that day as both the entries of the proud trainer had succeeded one after the other.
Positioned third was Paul Nicholls’s Kauto Star with A P McCoy riding.
Last when Long Run raced this season was on 18th March at Cheltenham where he won again.
With the same jockey, he stayed in touch of the lot even if in the rear, hit tenth and then made a mistake that sent him back to twelfth, stayed right there and could not become fluent even by fourth furlong out.
He stayed on to challenge the second furlong out, led before last and then rushed for the wire before anyone else.
Paul Nicholls’s both entries finished one after the other with Kauto Star claiming the same third position as in the race before this one. Denman got to be the runner up with Sam Thomas onboard.
The jockey continued telling, "The plan is to go for the Betfair Chase at Haydock on November 19 and then to the King George for the mid-season championship. A little bit depends then whether that is run on December 26 as scheduled or whether it has to be
put off to a later date”.
Hence the connections are pretty much decisive about the future races Long Run would be participating in. If he gets to win the Haydock on 19th November than he will be in for a hat trick which he has not achieved this season as yet.
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