'Roll on Cheltenham!' - Constitution Hill thrills breeder Sally Noott

Constitution Hill has quickly emerged as a leading light of British National Hunt breeding, providing a moment to treasure for small-scale breeder Sally Noott in Saturday's Unibet Tolworth Novices' Hurdle at Sandown.

Unbeaten in two, having now bolted up in two starts at the Esher track for Nicky Henderson and Michael Buckley, Constitution Hill is now at the top of the pile in the reckoning for the Supreme at Cheltenham.

The five-year-old son of Blue Bresil was purchased for Buckley by Henderson at the Goffs UK Spring HIT/P2P Sale last year. He was narrowly beaten in one Irish point-to-point for Warren Ewing, who bought him with Barry Geraghty as a foal for €16,500 at the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale.

Noott, who currently has a small band of four broodmares at her home in Belbroughton, Worcestershire, said: "I’m still flying, it’s fantastic. It makes it all worthwhile when something like this happens. I know it’s not my horse anymore, but I feel like it is.”

Constitution Hill is bred out of the dual winning King's Theatre mare Queen Of The Stage.

“He was my first foal out of Queen Of The Stage, and then I’ve got a Flemensfirth that’s due to race next year," she told GBRI.

Watch Constitution Hill's dazzling victory here

"They are all laid-back, they’re all the same. His mother’s quite quirky really, she frets a bit more, but everything she’s produced seems so laid-back. I have a filly to sell, she’s going to Doncaster. She’s just like, ‘I’ve really got to go out now, it’s raining?’, she’s just like that.

“I have them here, then they go to Simon [Balding] at Throckmorton when they’re born, and he takes them to the sales for me to sell at six months.

“It’s quite funny all this has happened, because I’m downsizing to three mares and I did think about selling Queen Of The Stage, and it was Simon who said, ‘You’ve done all the hard work, it’s too early’.

Only a couple of months ago we had this conversation, and obviously since then all this has happened, so obviously it was a very good move not to do anything. Roll on Cheltenham!”

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