Buck's pleasing ahead of return Owner Andy Stewart has been told Big Buck's could be better than ever ahead of his return from injury later this season. Paul Nicholls' four-times World Hurdle winner bolted up in the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury almost a year ago, but missed the rest of the campaign. The 10-year-old is likely to make his eagerly-awaited comeback in the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham in January before aiming to win back his World Hurdle crown at the Festival in March. "He's ever so well. Clifford Baker (Nicholls' head lad) thinks he could not only be as good as he was this time last year, but perhaps even better," Stewart told At The Races. "Of course I don't really believe that, but you'll be seeing him in January. "If he goes to the Cleeve, the World Hurdle and the Liverpool Hurdle, those will be the only three races he's going to partake in."
