WE saw it coming, or did we? The “I’d like to run him but…” from Nicky Henderson on his champion hurdler Constitution Hill.

“He’s gone from the Christmas Hurdle to the Champion Hurdle without a race, and he did the same the year before with the Supreme.” It’s looking like he has found the slimmest of reasons for not running the horse, who is so far ahead of his likely opponents that he should win any hurdle race in Britain in second gear.