Honeysuckle provides the sweetest tonic
A HANDFUL of horses arrived at this year’s Festival with an unblemished record, and still fewer returned home with that intact, but Honeysuckle was one of them and she did not disappoint.
Against the backdrop of the almost irreparable damage done to the sport’s image in the buildup, this year’s Unibet Champion Hurdle could not have been better scripted as a tonic for the troops.
A year earlier, Honeysuckle had won the mares’ hurdle when Blackmore
