Summerville Boy was outpaced by Mr. One More & Slate House earlier in the season. They haven’t exactly been pulling up trees on recent runs.
He’s not a bad shout for a place at current odds but personally I don’t fancy him to win.
Fair do’s - it would be a dull world if we all had the same opinion - all I’d say is don’t let that one run( when everything went wrong cloud your judgement) - this was the post race thoughts of Fehily as printed in the racing post:
“A race with a rich Grade 1 history produced one of its bigger upsets when the outsider of the five runners Summerville Boy revelled in being given a championship pace to aim at over Sandown's tough two miles.
The sponsors' 20-1 with a non-runner no bet concession for the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle might be popular after winning rider Noel Fehily reported the six-year-old hated the heavy ground while showing his last race form all wrong.
"They crawled round last time and you can forget that race," said Fehily after debriefing winning owner Roger Brookhouse and Sophie George, wife of winning trainer Tom George.
"You will see a better horse on better ground and if it is good ground at Cheltenham possibly the Ballymore might suit more but he has plenty of speed."
"He will be twice the horse next year – he is still very babyish," added Fehily, who lost an iron momentarily as Summerville Boy stuttered over the last to give Kalashnikov a glimmer of hope in what had looked a vain chase up the straight.
Winning connections were thankful to Mont Des Avaloirs for setting the sort of pace you expect in the cauldron of Cheltenham in March and the Paul Nicholls runner deserves credit for taking an albeit distant third as favourite Western Ryder got bogged down in the home straight.”
