STORY OF THE SEASON

Paul Ferguson looks at the highs and lows of the jumps campaign so far

The busy Festive period – as is often the case – will tell us plenty more about what is to come in the second half of the season, but what of the first three months of the National Hunt season?
Let’s start with the 2m hurdle division, which certainly looks ‘up in the air’ at present. Of course, we sadly lost last year’s Champion Hurdle winner Espoir D’Allen during the summer and many expected Willie Mullins’ Supreme Novices’ winner Kl...