After his long shutdown due to a viral infection at his Barbury training yard, Alan King’s horses were back with a vengeance on his first full day of racing (February 6)
At Doncaster successful flat racer First Mohican won in his first race over hurdles. He will next race at Kempton in two weeks and is entered for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
King also had a third place in a later novices’ hurdle with Gone Too Far ridden by champion jockey A.P. McCoy. And at Huntingdon the Barbury trained filly Avispa won in a National Hunt flat race.
The next big question for King is whether the weather holds for Saturday’s big Super Saturday (February 8) meeting at Newbury. There will be an inspection there at 7.00 am.
Marlborough flooding risk? With no let-up in the rain they’re keeping a careful watch on the Kennet
