Murphy: soft ground will be no hurdle to Inca

COLM MURPHY is not expecting the ground to be a major stumbling block to Brave Inca as he prepares to defend his Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle title.

Tue, 13 Mar, 2007 - 00:00
Pat Keane

Conditions at Cheltenham rode good to soft 12 months ago when the nine-year-old dug deepest of all for Tony McCoy to repel Macs Joy by a length in a thriller.

The prospect of very testing ground loomed large after a wet few weeks, but Murphy said: “I walked the track and the ground isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

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