Cheltenham Festival 2018 – Alan King’s Yanworth to run in the Sun Bets Stayers’ Hurdle at Prestbury Park

CONNECTIONS have confirmed Yanworth will have a crack at the Sun Bets Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

Alan King's eight-year-old has been running over fences this season and was last seen winning the Grade 2 Dipper Novices' Chase at Cheltenham.

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However, he will revert to hurdles at the Festival with one of the reasons being the current favourite, Supasundae, finished behind Yanworth in the Liverpool Hurdle last April.

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Owner JP McManus' racing manager Frank Berry said: "We just thought his jumping hadn't been the slickest but we're not saying he won't go back over fences, maybe even later this spring, we'll just see how he gets on here first.

"He'll be taken out of the novice chases (at Cheltenham), though, and will definitely run in the Stayers'.

"He was in the Stayers' and we just thought it was an opportunity to go down that road. Later in the season he'll have all the options."