Aintree option for Paul Nicholls’ smart novice chaser Black Corton following his Cheltenham Festival fifth

BLACK CORTON could head to Aintree for his next start following his fifth in the RSA Chase at last month’s Cheltenham Festival.

Trainer Paul Nicholls is also considering an option at Ayr for his classy novice chaser.

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Nicholls told At The Races: “He’s just had an easy couple of weeks. There’s a three-mile-one-furlong Grade 1 novice chase at Aintree and there’s also a £100,000 three-mile novice handicap at Ayr the following week, which is a new race and an interesting race. He could run in that actually.

“He’ll run in one of those two, I’d say. We’d obviously like to run him at Aintree, but I would like to run him on some better ground, at long last.

“He ran a bit free at Cheltenham. We rode him to win and if we’d ridden him a bit conservatively, we might have finished third.”