Drever Ready For Hat-Trick Bid Inglis Drever will bid to succeed where the great Baracouda failed and win a third totesport.com Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury on Saturday.Howard Johnson's charge denied the French star a third successive victory in the Grade Two event in 2005 before following up again last term.Inglis Drever has also won two World Hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival and Saturday's race is the first step on the road to Prestbury Park in March.'He's fine. He went for a racecourse gallop at Haydock last Saturday and he needed that, he was blowing quite hard at the end but he has been ready for a while,' said owner Graham Wylie.'We've been waiting for this softer ground and now it has come, so we'll take him down to Newbury and see how he gets on.'It's difficult to say if he is as far forward as he has been for this race for the past two years, we'll find out on Saturday I would think.'There's some young guns in there and some young pretenders but it's first time out in a long campaign so we'll see how he goes,' he told Racing UK.(C) PA Sport
