Classy hurdler Thedeviluno is set to make his return from injury before the end of the month with connections mapping out a campaign over the larger obstacles.
Paul Nolan’s seven-year-old won the River Don Novices’ Hurdle at Doncaster last season but picked up an injury in the Albert Bartlett at Cheltenham.
Given his winning form is on softer ground anyway, he is unlikely to have missed much.
Nolan said: “Thedeviluno had an injury in Cheltenham, but hopefully the vets have given him the all-clear and he should possibly be ready for a run at the end of the month.
“He is probably a month behind the rest of them, but he is going well. We start off over fences with him. Hopefully he will find his niche in that code, but he is something to look forward to.
“He kicked into himself very early on in the Albert Bartlett and Sean (O’Keeffe) was hoping he would start digging down, but he just levelled out and didn’t go with the rest of them. He knew there was something amiss.
“He ended up getting a slight tear to a tendon, but it is all fine and scans are clean and hopefully that won’t be a problem for him in the future.”
On the same afternoon Thedeviluno won the River Don on Town Moor, Nolan’s Feet Of A Dancer won the Grade Two Yorkshire Rose Hurdle. She is among nine entries for the Lismullen Hurdle this weekend.
Nolan added: “We would start her off there and look to end up back in Doncaster again (Yorkshire Rose on January 30).”
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