Solwhit blow leaves Champion wide open
This really was the cruellest of blows to Charles Byrnes, Davy Russell and the horse’s owners and, of course, to those sitting on tasty prices ante-post about him for the Champion Hurdle.
Many pundits think this is a wide-open Champion Hurdle and the fact that the layers were quite content to go 4-1 the field supported such a theory.
