Inglis Drever team choose the Saturday option

LADBROKES World Hurdle winner Inglis Drever will try to supplement his Cheltenham success in the Scottish & Newcastle Aintree Hurdle at the Merseyside course on Saturday.

Graham Wylie’s six-year-old, trained by Howard Johnson, is to step back to two and a half miles following his famous victory over Baracouda in the stayers’ championship last month.

Wylie said yesterday: “We have decided to go for the two-and-a-half-mile race on Saturday as we know he gets the trip really well and with the softer ground that we are expecting, it could be the ideal race for him.