Bookmakers pay out on British NH champions With the 2019-20 National Hunt season brought to a premature end this month, bookmakers are paying out on Nicky Henderson and Brian Hughes as champion trainer and jockey respectively. "Whilst no-one wanted to see this current jumps season end in March, that's the situation we find ourselves in, and with all UK racing cancelled until May at the earliest, it's only right to pay out on Nicky Henderson and Brian Hughes as champion trainer and jockey, with both leading their respective standings when the sport was halted," said Coral's David Stevens. Paddy Power representative Paul Binfield said, "We've decided to pay out on Nicky and Brian as the jumps season will have ended by the earliest point that UK racing can resume and congratulations to the pair of them. "It's unfortunate in the current tragic circumstances that both Paul Nicholls and Richard Johnson will now not get a chance to wrestle the titles out of the grasp of their great rivals." Betfair have also confirmed that they will be paying out on the current leaders with their PR Manager Barry Orr saying, "If racing resumes at the scheduled time the NH season will be over so it makes perfect sense to settle these markets for customers."
