Geraghty has full faith in Constitution Hill’s Flat prowess

With the Cheltenham Festival over and the Flat season fast approaching, thoughts are naturally turning to the prospect of Constitution Hill wowing his fans on the level this summer.

There is a multitude of options available to the former Champion Hurdler in his new venture and Barry Geraghty, who sourced the nine-year-old and classed the young Constitution Hill as part of his family, is pondering if he might even seen at the highest level back in Ireland later in the year.

He said: “I was in a meeting at the Curragh and the racecourse was in the background and I was just imagining him being there in the autumn running in the Irish St Leger and the thought of him running in a Group One is magic. You’d have to think he would be a contender in a race like that.

“It’s a different avenue, but his jumping and the heavy falls left its mark on him and his confidence and it has to be the right thing to do rather than keep rolling the dice over hurdles.

“He’s a classy individual and it will be easy to watch him parade before a Flat race than worrying about him getting round. He’s a gorgeous horse in every sense and you can never take his Champion Hurdle away from him.”

Constitution Hill took his final bow at Cheltenham when parading prior to the opening day of the Festival and with his jumping days now seemingly behind him, Geraghty is in no doubt where he fits into the pantheon of hurdling greats.

“When you talk about how great he was as a hurdler, to have won a Champion Hurdle and to break the track record at Cheltenham on his third start, you have to be a special horse,” continued William Hill ambassador Geraghty.

“Golden Signet set the standard previously in the Supreme and there is no doubt he is one of the greats.

“Golden Cygnet, Istabraq and Constitution Hill for me are the ones that blew the roof off this place when they did their winning.”