Back In The Nic Of Time Noel Meade expects Nicanor to be back in action around Christmas time.The winner of the 2006 Royal & SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle, in which he inflicted a sole defeat upon Denman, has been sidelined with a tendon injury.Moreover, he has not raced since following up his Cheltenham success in the Grade One Champion Novice Hurdle at the Punchestown festival that April.'So far, so good but it's very early days,' said the Navan trainer.'There's no point in planning out a campaign until we get him fit and see how he goes then, but I would hope he would be out at Christmas or before.'We'd be hoping he'd be going over fences ? we schooled him last year. He's actually hacking at the moment.'(C) PA Sport
