Count on Cowboy

RHINESTONE COWBOY can continue his education in the winter game by landing the Systems By Design - Interiors ‘NH’ Maiden Hurdle at Newbury today.

Jonjo O’Neill’s charge has been impressive in his three bumpers, winning two - impressively at Ascot last season and on his seasonal comeback this - and finishing runner up in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at last season’s Festival.

On that occasion it was Pizarro who denied him by a neck after the six-year-old was twice knocked into in the closing stages.