With Discretion finally makes her chasing debut under Rules, but has clearly been a difficult horse to train
Nicky Henderson does not saddle many eight-year-old mares over fences – only two, in fact, in the last 16 seasons, and both Ma Filleule and Nadiya De La Vega had been jumping the bigger obstacles from their four-year-old days in France. He has not sent a single eight-year-old mare over fences for the first time since at least 2003 – which is where my database stops – so plenty of punters are likely to take the hint when With Discretion (2.10) finally makes her chasing debut under Rules at Uttoxeter.
With Discretion has clearly been a difficult horse to train and made her hurdling debut at now-defunct Towcester in March 2018, almost three years after her last start in a point-to-point in May 2015. But she was backed liked a good thing when she did appear, duly delivered and then followed up by 11 lengths at Newton Abbot a month later.