• Converted chaser wins Relkeel Hurdle by daylight[br]• Festival the target for runner from small Dorset yardThe low-profile Dorset trainer Robert Walford has a live contender for the Cheltenham Festival in light of Camping Ground’s surprising but emphatic success in Friday’s Relkeel Hurdle. There were three preceding Festival winners toiling in his wake as the 10-1 shot bolted up under Leighton Aspell,with only the outsider Lil Rockerfeller getting within 20 lengths of him.
Cole Harden, final year’s World Hurdle winner, and was well held in third and Camping Ground has now shortened past him with some firms to be second-favourite for that race at the Festival in March.
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Source: theguardian.com