Update Alert Calipto CHELTENHAM 15:10 Hit&Miss ten to follow this Nh season 2014/15

Alert for our  -  Ten to follow this Nh season 2014/15

CHELTENHAM 15:10 - Masterson Holdings Hurdle
2m 0f 110yds Class 2 Masterson Holdings Hurdle (4yo)
Going : Good, Good to Soft in places

Winners of race last 2 years which gives us a clue to the path for Calipto imo.

2013 Sametegal (FR) 4 11-6         P F Nicholls
2012 Dodging Bullets 4 10-12 P F Nicholls


CALIPTO -  Odds 6/5 General 

Paul Nicholls’ 4 year old was made favourite for last season’s Triumph Hurdle on the back of a very impressive 3 ¾ length beating of subsequent Adonis Hurdle winner, Activial, at Newbury’s Hennessy meeting and a subsequent victory over course and distance in February. His stirrup leather broke at Cheltenham when he looked to be going best of all and he appeared to get lit up when sent off market leader for the Aintree version when fading into 3rd behind Guitar Pete 20 days later. The trainer seemed to rate him very highly in the run up to Cheltenham and his current mark of 143 ought to be very workable in top class handicap company this winter.
It won’t have been wasted on his trainer how well he appeared to like Newbury’s flat circuit and he could reappear in the Gerry Feilden Hurdle in November with a run in the Betfair Hurdle in February a likely precursor to the Champion Hurdle 6 weeks later. Zarkandar won the Betfair before a good run at Cheltenham and Nicholls could be eyeing a similar path.