US HORSE FOR CHELTENHAM America`s top-rated juvenile hurdler Segregation Lane is to take on Europe`s best in the Elite Racing Club Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham, it was revealed today. The four-year-old is unbeaten in three completed starts over hurdles, at Virginia Fall, Great Meadow and Camden, and slipped up on the home turn on his only other outing over timber. He is trained at Middleburg in Virginia by Englishman Neil Morris, who said: 'The plan is to run at Cheltenham and he will probably come over in the first week of March but will not race before the Festival. 'It has been one of my dreams to have a runner at Cheltenham - one doesn`t get too many opportunities and I think I have a nice horse. 'I know he has to be really, really good to go over but he`s training super. 'I think he`s a pretty useful horse who I`d like to run against his own age group, which he can`t do in America. 'In his favour is that we get started a little earlier with our three-year-olds and he`s put everyone to bed in this country - in four starts he`s had three wins, two of them in stakes races.' Matthew McCarron, who has been riding Segregation Lane in America, will be in the saddle at Cheltenham.
