Sublimity favourite for follow-up success

/ Editor / 14 March 2007 / Leave a Comment

Tuesday's Champion Hurdle winner, Sublimity, can already be traded to follow up his success at next year's Festival.

The John Carr-trained gelding shocked many pundits when putting in a fine display to get the better of Brave Inca and Afsoun in a race which saw hot favourite Detroit City beaten from the first flight.

Carr admitted that he was thinking of running the seven-year-old in a handicap later in the week but felt his charge deserved a crack at the race.

"I was leaning for the County Hurdle because he would have been a certainty off his weight in that and we could have gone to the Champion Hurdle next year," said the Maynooth-based trainer.

"But by this time next year the horse could have been injured or I could have been dead - there's only one Champion Hurdle and with top-class horses disaster is always round the corner."

An emerging market sees Sublimity trading at 7.2 ahead of Brave Inca on 11. Tuesday's disappointment, Detroit City, is next best at 12 along with Amaretto Rose on the same price.

Sublimity's price is a far cry from the mark he was traded at before his Cheltenham success with the former Sir Michael Stoute inmate having been backed at 600 on Betfair's ante-post market for success in hurdling's Blue Riband.