Races
“100 percent” Stayers victor Flooring Porter set for Aintree task
Cheltenham hero Flooring Porter will look to land a quickfire Festival double at Aintree in April
Duel Stayers’ Hurdle winner Flooring Porter will ply his trade in next month’s Grand National Festival with connections keen to remain on a right-handed track after his second Prestbury Park success last week.
Gavin Cromwell’s stable-star was a brilliant winner of his third Grade 1 in Gloucestershire but after his Punchestown mishap last campaign, he will take a different route to follow up his Stayers’ win this time around.
And his handler has even hinted at the possibility that his charge will head over to France before he enters his summer break.
“Flooring Porter is great, he’s had a canter and he is 100 per cent,” Cromwell told At The Races.
“He has really grown up – it is just maturity, but when you take him out of his familiar surroundings it can affect him, but he is a very intelligent horse at the back of it all.
“We got him over there good and early which was a big help. He was a little on his toes for the first couple of days, but then got settled into the place and the red hood was a big help at the start.
“He definitely won’t go to Punchestown as he won’t go right-handed, so we will go to Aintree and there is a possibility he will go to Auteuil (Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil).”
