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The Hill Constitution completely erased the memory of last year, while on Tuesday was delighted by Nicky Henderson at his Pre-Cheltenham Festival at Keepton Park.

The eight -year -old has an untreated record according to the rules, winning each of his 10 obstacles begins with eight of those highest level victories.

However, he encountered a failure during his gallop warming 12 months ago, when a false view revealed that Henderson’s superstar had suffered from a respiratory infection that encouraged any hope of defending the Unibet Champion Crown, which he won in the Exalted Style 2023 .

The suspect of how many classes led to the early end of the campaign in March before his gallop troubles again hit before his expected seasonal arc in the fifth obstacle in the fight.

The tested effort after which the stable cheese Gino followed a short period of lameness, which meant that he did not hit the trail until his triumphant return to Christmas obstacle on box day.

Since then, on the day of the trial, he served a further reminder of his stars with a victory in Cheltenham and there was no moment of drama in his mid -morning gallop in Kempton, and the great big de Boinville pilot has allowed him to withdraw from work from work by partners and Aston and Aston Martini.

Horse owner Michael Buckley was also available and Henderson felt 12 months.

He said, “Nico’s face, my face and Michael’s face will probably tell you that he is a different day. It’s him and it’s good to look really, isn’t it – it’s actually scary to watch.

“We were so happy and you just had to break through last year. We knew before we really came here last year that these horses don’t fly and it was harder to go through, while today everything has everything has passed perfectly.

“It was great that you (press) everything here (to watch) and you can decide.”

Henderson does not expect to end up Hill’s constituent work ahead of his festival goal.

He added: “(not do) much more. On Friday he had a good time and that was to decide if I would come here, and I was in two minds, but Nico said,” I think he will enjoy it and that will be fun ‘and it will really do it.

“It’s on Tuesday (a champion obstacle), so it’s the first day, so we have two more weeks and we wouldn’t want to do a lot more this week. It will jump some obstacles, probably on Monday or Tuesday next week, and I would say it would be probably had another gallop on our grass. “

The Hill Constitution worked more than two miles in company with his stable stables of 126 grades, and Henderson admitted that he did not expect it to be beautiful and Aston Martini would keep up.

He said, “It was a two -horse gallop and a gallop with one horses, and we had to do it because it doesn’t make sense to try to go with him, we know it. They did their own things, and that wasn’t if he had to do anything – It was just a clean, raw natural pace.

“Today it had to go right, we all know it. So far he has had a great season, that was great and we have two weeks to finish our job and our job is over, and then Nico is finished.

“You would never get tired watching this horse, because it was very special. It’s very special.”

When the Hill Constitution won the trials, he made a rare mistake in the last obstacle, and Henderson suggested that time could provide a solution for that concern.

He was joking, “The sun may be in the racetrack that afternoon, he may not even have that last obstacle!”