Tent lays his Betfair claim

Nicky Henderson’s thought process over My Tent Or Yours was fairly transparent as he took the gelding to Huntingdon for the EBF Connolly’s Red Mills “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle.

Bookmakers were reporting support in the morning for the well-regarded gelding in the market for next month’s Betfair Hurdle at Newbury, and this bloodless victory ensures he has the correct qualifications for the valuable handicap.

My Tent Or Yours had beaten subsequent Challow Hurdle scorer Taquin Du Seuil on his reappearance at Ascot and in cruising seven lengths clear of useful bumper horse Population in chilly Cambridgeshire, he proved that his more recent defeat to stablemate Chatterbox at Newbury was just a minor blip.