{"id":844931,"date":"2026-03-23T12:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/844931\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:47:16","slug":"constitution-hill-to-face-seven-rivals-on-second-flat-start-at-kempton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/844931\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Hill to face seven rivals on second Flat start at Kempton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicky Henderson’s nine-year-old returns to the track where he has won the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on Boxing Day on three occasions\"Constitution<\/p>\n

Constitution Hill made a stunning debut on the flat at Southwell(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Officials at Kempton are keenly awaiting the return of Constitution Hill for his second Flat outing on Wednesday. Nicky Henderson’s<\/a> nine-year-old has been a familiar face at the Sunbury venue throughout his career, capturing the Christmas<\/a> Hurdle at Kempton on Boxing Day<\/a> three times.<\/p>\n

With his hurdling days now behind him following three falls in his last four races, Constitution Hill will now concentrate entirely on the Flat and he could scarcely have made a more impressive start when stealing the show at Southwell last month with a stunning triumph. Ryan Moore<\/a> takes the reins from the suspended Oisin Murphy as he attempts to secure another victory against seven opponents in the Virgin Bet Novice Stakes.<\/p>\n

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Clerk of the course Barney Clifford said: “What he did at Southwell was sensational, he really impressed me and I was giving him a Group Three figure straight away. Obviously he’s got to build on that and it’s nice that this race has slotted into his programme to get him a handicap mark.<\/p>\n

“If he runs to a similar mark to what he did at Southwell it will be great and he has been here before. He obviously worked here on the gallops morning before the Cheltenham Festival<\/a> and Nico (de Boinville) always said it was a bit slow for him, so he obviously copes with the surface.<\/p>\n

“It’s nice people are taking him on \u2013 it’s not a two-runner race or anything. I know there were only nine initial entries, but eight of those have been confirmed which is great.”<\/p>\n

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Constitution Hill storming to victory at Southwell(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Clifford is optimistic that Constitution Hill’s army of fans will ensure Kempton is busier than usual for a midweek evening all-weather meeting, adding: “I think pre-bookings have increased since the news came out that he was coming. I’m sure there will be an enhanced attendance.”<\/p>\n

Constitution Hill, who has been installed 1-4 favourite, will compete in the sixth race on an eight-race card, with a planned start time of 7.30pm.<\/p>\n

In a video shared on Kempton’s social media platforms, Henderson said: “He’s in great form and I think and hope that he’s looking forward to an outing at Kempton on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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“He knows Kempton very, very well, not only from the Christmas Hurdles that he’s won there in the past, but he knows the all-weather well there as well as we’ve galloped him there several times in our pre-Cheltenham gallops morning there.<\/p>\n

“He likes going there, he’s in good shape and Ryan Moore is going to ride him which is good, as he can hopefully tell us what we need to know.<\/p>\n

“We’re very much looking forward to a night out and I’m sure he is. It’s all systems go, I hope it will be a fun evening for him and it will be for us if he can come home in front.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicky Henderson’s nine-year-old returns to the track where he has won the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on Boxing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[45878,51246,135092,10841,288,207784,1071,38664,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-844931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-boxing-day","tag-cheltenham-festival","tag-cheltenham-town-fc","tag-festivals","tag-horse-racing","tag-nicky-henderson","tag-racing","tag-ryan-moore","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116278568748856598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844931","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=844931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}