Brave trainers on Inca trail

YOU have got to say Sunday’s AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown has a far more interesting shape to it than might have been expected.

Brave trainers on Inca trail
Thu, 25 Jan, 2007 - 00:00
Pat Keane

There was always the possibility this might have developed into little more than a lap of honour for Brave Inca, but that is certainly far from the case.

No one could blame trainers if they decided to give the AIG a swerve.

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