Racing Post Issues: MONDAY FEBUARY 22, RACING POST 2016.

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MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, RACING POST

Week Monday February 22 to Sunday February 28 2016

SATURDAY'S CH4 MORNING LINE PREVIEW

9.00am to 10.00am

Taking a Closer look at Horseracing

A Work Of Art in Practice, Progress Guide.

http://racing.channel4.com/

MEET UP WITH CH4 HORSERACING TEAM LIVE

FROM CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2016

Tuesday March 15 to Friday March 18

Message from John Francome (GB)
"I'll be there".

John Francome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.cheltenham-festival.co.uk/cheltenham-races.php

Message from Nicky Henderson (GB)
"I'll be there".
http://www.horse-racing.co.uk/nicky-henderson.php

Message from Willie Mullins (IRE)
""I'll be there"
http://www.horse-racing.co.uk/willie-mullins.php

DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

MEET UP WITH CH4 HORSERACING TEAM LIVE FROM

ROYAL ASCOT 2016

Tuesday June 14, to Saturday June 18, 2016

https://www.ascot.co.uk/tickets-sale-royal-ascot-2016

JMC: Balance, timing, hands this young man has earned

his own "bloodhorse literate copyright rating"

RACING POST CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2016 PREVIEW:

The clues are here, but can you spot them?

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.

THE BIG READ
RPSunday February 21, 2016
Tuesday March 15, to Friday March 18.

PREVIEW CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2016

Cheltenham Festival 2016 Dates, Race Schedule, Sponsors ...

jpfestival.com/festival-race-schedule

NICKY HENDERSON TALKS TO ALASTAIR DOWN

“Without doubt our strongest race this year is the Supreme’

15 Mar 16

CHELTENHAM

Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) Cl1 2m87y

Card

Betting

“SEVEN BARROWS with a month to go until the Cheltenham Festival used to be a place where angels gave a second thought to treading. But Nicky Henderson’s command is a calmer place than in days of yore.

“And so it should be because planning for great events and mastering matters of moment should hold no terrors for Henderson – D-Days run in the family.

“Nicky’s dad Johnny has his name attached to the Grand Annual in recognition for his role as the architect of the modern Cheltenham. In 1963 he put together a group of investors to buy the course for £240,000 and effectively gifted it to the Jockey Club some ten years later.

“Henderson snr was also wartime aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery who would later become godfather to Henderson jnr.

“Monty divides historians and was a man who attracted adulation and odium in roughly equal measure. Johnny Henderson was a Monty’s side at the Southwick House headquarters of allied forces near Portsmouth as the admirable Dwight D Eisenhower agonised over when to launch the greatest invasion in history.

“I would not be so crass as to compare Ike’s HQ with Seven Barrows, but there are curious similarities beyond the presence of Henderson father and son at two places.

“Thirty –odd runners at Cheltenham are not quite 5,400 landing craft but the weather held the key back then as it does now. Cheltenham is all about exact planning, the desperate need to be successful and exactly how to deploy your troops.

“Of course Henderson, 65, is the festival general and nobody has fought over the hallowed ground as fruitfully – his 53 winners leaving him clear of Willie Mullins on 41, Fulke Walwyn with 40 and Paul Nichollson 37.

“The haul includes five Champion Hurdles, five Arkles, six Triumph Hurdles, three Champion Chases and a brace of Gold Cups. Thus far, however, it has not been a vintage season and it has taken his string plenty of time to crank up to full power.

“At the start of the season everything seemed in place but towards the end of November 50 per cent of the horses went down with a little bug,” says Henderson.

“They had coughs and snotty noses and, although individually they would get over it in about ten days, that still made each horse a three-to four-week project because you had to be so careful which ones you got on with.

“Training is 90 per cent instinct and if you gallop them too early, then you simply screw them up. Their whole system partially shuts down and we treated them with antibiotics that were not too aggressive, but sometimes you or I would not feel quite right even after having taken a course of those.

“So it knocked us behind schedule and December was not nearly as productive as you’d want and the weather was still mild with no frosts to kill off lingering problems. “