Limestone still on easy list

Plans remain firmly on hold for the great Limestone Lad, arguably the most popular hurdler to have run either side of the Irish Sea in recent years.

The winner of an amazing 35 races and over half a million pounds in prize-money has been on the sidelines through injury since his third to Baracouda in the Stayers’ Hurdle at Cheltenham last year.

Michael Bowe, son and assistant to his father James, told At The Races: “The problem is still there in his tendon, but he is out in the field every day and he’s put in at night.

“He looks a picture, but I wasn’t going to bring him back unless I could bring him back to his former glory days. The horse has a tremendous record and I didn’t want to spoil that. He owes nothing to no-one here.

“This season looks like it has gone at the moment and next season he’ll be 13 rising 14, and where do you go from there?”