Chief can rule over fences

CHIEF DAN GEORGE failed to reach the expected heights in top staying hurdle company last season but he can compensate for a blank year at Sedgefield today.

Chief can rule over fences
Tue, 25 Nov, 2008 - 00:00

The eight-year-old switches to fences for the first time after a barren campaign which saw him comprehensively outclasses by the likes of Inglis Drever and Blazing Bailey amongst others.

He was once a high-class novice hurdler for James Moffatt though, beating the likes of Wichita Lineman and Massini’s Maguire in the Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree in 2007 .

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