Pretty fair really and it puts him into the Champion Hurdle picture. But he was receiving 4lbs from Punjabi, just as he had when he was eight lengths ahead of Punjabi in the International Hurdle at Cheltenham, which does suggest that Punjabi in progressing, but at what rate?
Medermit’s form ties in with Go Native, who beat him a neck in last season’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Festival, but also with Khyber Kim, who beat him three lengths at Cheltenham in November (when receiving 3lbs) and then five-and-a-quarter lengths at level weights in the International.
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