Inca to brave it over hurdles

CONNECTIONS of Brave Inca have abandoned plans to go chasing with the Champion Hurdle third and will plot another campaign over timber.

Trainer Colm Murphy was thinking about letting the seven-year-old tackle the bigger obstacles this season but he is now likely to have another crack at the Smurfit Champion Hurdle.

Brave Inca finished just half a length behind Hardy Eustace in the Cheltenham showpiece last year and Murphy believes he could go a couple of places better this time.