Ben Cox believes John Hanlon’s bargain buy is fit and ready to join the Cheltenham Gold rush

JOHN ‘Shark’ Hanlon has admitted he would “travel the world” to find a superstar racehorse like his Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup contender Hewick and still cannot believe he found him in a local sale “five minutes down the road”.
Hanlon describes the nine-yearold, who cost his owner TJ McDonald just 850 Euros (around £800) but has already won more than £600,000 in prize money, as “tough as nails”.
And as he and his team plot a second bid for Gold Cup success after his fall in last year’s race two fe...