Crick stakes claim to join King's men

Oh Crick could have booked a surprise place on Alan King’s powerful Cheltenham Festival team after completing a four-timer under Robert Thornton in the Pertemps People Development Group Handicap Hurdle at Hereford.

The 7-1 chance has been running out of his skin lately and did so once more in proving too strong for Silmi and Hue in the two-mile-one-furlong contest.