TALKING RACING

Ben Morgan thinks the flak thrown at Nicky Henderson over Altior was misplaced

The racing world was shaken to its foundations on the first weekend of December over Altior’s late withdrawal from the Tingle Creek. Nicky Henderson took a barrage of abuse from racing fans, Twitter trolls and even some of his own colleagues, as he took his stable star out of the Grade 1 event on the count of the heavy ground.
Henderson explained that he did not want to bottom out Altior on his first run back just 12 months after that famous clash with Cyrname which left its mar...