Itchy Feet set for Supreme outing

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Olly Murphy is looking to pitch Itchy Feet into the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in March after his second place at Cheltenham on Sunday.

The Stratford-upon-Avon handler was impressed with the four-year-old finishing just one and a quarter lengths behind the Colin Tizzard-trained Elixir De Nutz in the Supreme Trial Novices’ Hurdle at Prestbury Park.

A return to Cheltenham for March’s Festival is now high on Murphy’s priority list for Itchy feet when looking further ahead to 2019.

He said: ‘He ran a cracker.

I think the winner got a soft lead and we were giving him 5lb.

I’d like to take him on again off level terms in a good race.

‘He will have one more run before coming back to Cheltenham in March, when hopefully he will come back for the Supreme.

I think a fast-run two miles here will suit him.’

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