GUN CHAMPION RUN UNLIKELY Punters who backed ante-post Smurfit Champion Hurdle gamble Gun`N Roses look to have `done their money` after news today that the five-year-old is likely to miss the race and return to France. Francois Rohaut`s charge was well-fancied for his British bow last Saturday but came home last of seven finishers in the Agfa Hurdle at Sandown. He has been staying with his stable-companion Bilboquet at the Lambourn yard of Toby Balding, whose assistant Jonathan Geake revealed today: 'I believe that Gun N`Roses is now going to go back to France where he could go over fences. 'Monsieur Rohaut came over on Saturday and he felt that the horse`s running was too bad to be true but even so, he would appear to be below Champion Hurdle standard.
