Will great expectations be realised this Christmas?
THRILL OF THE HILL: Constitution Hill has already proven himself a star but the Champion Hurdle hero needs to be seen more often for favourable comparisons with Istabraq to be backed up.
“Every idiot that goes about with a ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips,” said Ebeneezer Scrooge, ”should be boiled with his pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
With that sort of attitude, it’s unlikely that Charles Dickens’ miserable old scrounger will be joining the parties at Leopardstown, Limerick, or Down Royal over the coming week, which might be just as well. He’d probably find plenty to ‘bah-humbug’ about.
