Not So Sleepy providing his owner-breeders with the best of Flat and jump worlds
Exciting well-named lively Betfair Hurdle hope has surprised Lord and Lady Blyth
Not So Sleepy’s naming is particularly apt, given that some of his antics at Hughie Morrison’s yard ensure that his rider needs to have taken their morning coffee first.
His owner-breeder, Lady Blyth, does not take the credit and explains that it stems instead from another fine dual-purpose horse who, had he maintained the sort of form which saw him leading the field before running out at the second-last in the 2010 Neptune at Cheltenham, might well have made it to a Betfair Hurdle himself.
"We bought a horse quite a while ago from Hughie and called him Sleepy Hollow, because he was a Beat Hollow," Lady Blyth explains.
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