Structure Hill fell for the second time in succession as Lossiemouth landed the William Hill Aintree Hurdle.
The Nicky Henderson-trained favorite suffered a shock departure within the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham final month however it appeared as if he was travelling supremely nicely for Nico de Boinville turning for house this time, though he was caught in behind a wall of horses.
As De Boinville switched out to launch his problem, Structure Hill as soon as once more acquired his leaping all improper and hit the turf, leaving Lossiemouth (5-4) and Wodhooh to battle it out, with the first-named simply prevailing for Willie Mullins.
Punchestown subsequent for Structure Hill?
Henderson mentioned: “It’s heartbreaking and to do it twice, you could not imagine it actually.
“He’s genuinely the perfect jumper you will ever see, however in that vocabulary there may be simply this what you’d have known as a one per cent likelihood of doing what he is finished, however he is finished it twice, which does fear you, after all it does, however how will you iron it out?
“As Nico mentioned, he’d been implausible the entire means. At a few hurdles he went in brief and that is what we have been making an attempt to get him to do, however when you are going to three-out and racing like that you would be able to’t afford to do this, you have to go, and Nico mentioned he simply got here up too quickly.
“Nico mentioned he was filled with operating and his phrases to me had been that he really had Lossiemouth the place he wished her. He was completely satisfied along with her in entrance slightly than behind.
“We had been beginning to talk about it (Punchestown) simply then. Funnily sufficient after Cheltenham I mentioned to Nico we might go to Punchestown and never right here and he mentioned ‘good, these hurdles will go well with him higher’.”
Lossiemouth and Wodhooh soar the final collectively within the Aintree Hurdle
“Two and a half miles was ideally suited for her right here, the race was ideally suited for her,” successful jockey Paul Townend informed ITV.
“The bottom was full of life sufficient, it is drying out each minute in comparison with the way it was driving on the hurdles course earlier.
“She coped with it nicely. I’ve seen Nico strolling away, and Structure Hill, so we are able to have fun that.”
