The New Lion can defy gloomy Turners Novices' Hurdle history

Darren Norris previews day two of the Cheltenham Festival.

Trainer Dan Skelton with The New Lion at Lodge Hill. Pic: Joe Giddens/PA Wire.

Challow Novices’ Hurdle winners have a deplorable record in the Grade One Turners Novices' Hurdle but The New Lion can defy that gloomy stat in the opening race on day two of the Cheltenham Festival.

The last 20 Challow winners to line up in the Turners have all been beaten but that curse has to be broken at some point and The New Lion, a top-class prospect in the making, is fancied to be the horse to break it.