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Gidleigh Park team considering Aintree options
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Fry has the option of running his charge in the opening EBC Group Manifesto Novices’ Chase over two and a half miles on Thursday or waiting until Saturday’s two-mile Rosconn Group Maghull Novices’ Chase.
Gidleigh Park has had a disrupted season and Fry said: “We’ve got to have a sit down today and have a look at the two races and decide which one to go for.”
Gidleigh Park impressively beat Caldwell Potter at Windsor in January but a setback saw him miss Cheltenham, while the Paul Nicholls inmate went on to make all for victory in the Jack Richards Novices’ Chase.
Fry added: “It was great to see him (Caldwell Potter) winning so well and it was obviously frustrating we couldn’t get to the Festival ourselves, but he’s in good order and we’re looking forward to Aintree and it’s great to have a decision to be made.”
Stablemate Altobelli is likely to step up in trip to three miles in the Liverpool Hurdle on Merseyside.
The seven-year-old is coming off a pair of victories at Ascot as he steps up into Grade One open company for the first time.
Fry said: “We felt all along that we would like to step him up in trip again, so the Liverpool Hurdle is the preference.
“We’ll be following the declarations for the Aintree Hurdle, so if that cut up particularly in the morning for Thursday we might have a look, but the preference has always been the three-mile option on Saturday.”
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