Shark Hanlon\u2019s stable star Hewick is set to make his seasonal debut over hurdles at Thurles on Thursday, with his Muine Bheag based handler eying some big targets this season.<\/p>\n
The pint sized 10-year-old already counts a Galway Plate, King George and American Grand National on his glittering CV, and Hanlon is confident he could plunder another big prize this season.<\/p>\n
Set to be ridden by Hanlon\u2019s son Paddy, Hewick will face just two rivals, Charles Bryne\u2019s Run For Oscar who has eyecacthing form on the flat and John McConnell\u2019s Moon D\u2019Orange, who scored over fences on Cheltenham Trials Day last season.<\/p>\n
But as Hewick kicks off his campaign over hurdles, Hanlon is confident that the horse is fit enough to do himself justice. Speaking exclusively to his stable partner, BOYLE Sports, he said:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to give Hewick a nice experience on his first run back, he\u2019s worked plenty, he\u2019s ready to go and in great form. I\u2019m delighted Paddy is on board, he knows the horse better than anyone else and we\u2019re looking forward to seeing the horse back on the racetrack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of options this year, there\u2019s a chance that he could go to the Charlie Hall or Down Royal for the Champion Chase, and we\u2019ve been looking at the King George too. He\u2019s as good as he ever was and he was unlucky not to get a Grade 1 on the board last season. We\u2019re excited to take on the big races again, and I\u2019m confident he can be competitive in them\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shark Hanlon\u2019s stable star Hewick is set to make his seasonal debut over hurdles at Thurles on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-501298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377863695697321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}