Summit Hurdle bid on the horizon for Knight Salute
Exciting Milton Harris-trained juvenile heading to Doncaster next month.
Milton Harris is targeting the Bet365 Summit Hurdle at Doncaster next month for exciting juvenile Knight Salute. Unbeaten in three starts over hurdles, the Sir Percy three-year-old landed the JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle at Cheltenham earlier this month and is now being primed for the extended two-mile Grade Two event on December 11. As short as 14-1 with Sky Bet for the JCB Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March, the Warminster trainer insists he “wouldn’t swap mine for anything”.Harris said on Tuesday: “Knight Salute schooled this morning. He has improved since Cheltenham. “He is not sexy in terms that he is a big, strong beast like the ones that Paul Nicholls can buy for three hundred grand – he is not one of these lovely big horses – but he is efficient. He is very quick hurdler and he has got a turn of foot. “I would imagine that is the route, but I am not convinced we won’t go on a bit of soft ground. Whether he wants winter ground at Lingfield is another matter. “Doncaster doesn’t generally get bad ground. There will likely be four or five runners, there will be Gary Moore’s horse probably (Porticello), but Gary’s horse beat my horse, Genuflex, by three and three-quarter lengths in the Listed Wensleydale Juvenile Hurdle at Wetherby and if that’s as good as he is, I wouldn’t be too scared, as Knight Salute is better than Genuflex. “But, of course, in Gary’s defence, his looks a big, raw horse.
♞ A knight in shining armour
Milton Harris looks to have a smart prospect on his hands as Knight Salute remains unbeaten over timber, completing the hat-trick under @PaddyBrennan81 at @CheltenhamRaces pic.twitter.com/PjvAm2ubdE — Racing TV (@RacingTV) November 13, 2021
That man Paddy Brennan again, taking his own route to glory on Knight Salute for the red-hot Milton Harris pic.twitter.com/nzDCrL5Wb3
— Nick Robson (@ValueRacingPlus) November 13, 2021
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