Super Mac may get Osana call

ANDREW McNamara is poised to claim the ride aboard Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle second favourite Osana after putting the 2008 runner-up through his paces at David Pipe’s yard earlier this week.

Owner Thomas Barr used Pipe’s stable jockey Tom Scudamore at the Cheltenham Festival last year when the partnership lost out by a length to Katchit, after which they again filled the runner-up berth at Aintree.

Paddy Brennan then got the leg-up for the seven-year-old’s seasonal bow at Sandown last month but Irishman McNamara, who is stable jockey to Edward O’Grady, is now in the frame for the ride.