Harden has Aintree target Warren Greatrex has abandoned plans to give Cole Harden an easy week after the World Hurdle hero bounced out of the Cheltenham Festival in great order. The plan is now to run him in the Liverpool Hurdle at the Crabbie's Grand National meeting, as long as he remains on good terms with himself. So well did Cole Harden take the race that the six-year-old already weighs more than he did before his heroic all-the-way win last Thursday. "The plan was to give him a quiet week after Cheltenham but he's so fresh and well I gave him a canter (on Wednesday morning)," said Greatrex. "He's taken his race so well that he weighs four kilos heavier than he did a day before the World Hurdle. "He's got a great constitution, he just loves it. "Last season he led Faugheen into the straight in the Neptune and then bettered that at Aintree (when second to Beat That in the Sefton Novices' Hurdle). "As long as he's 100 per cent, that is where he'll go, but if he's 99 per cent he won't. "I don't want to build him up, but he could be even better there. "He seems in tip-top form ."
