Rose Blooming Marvellous Nicky Henderson hopes Amaretto Rose can follow in the hoofprints of former inmates River Ceiriog and Flown by lifting the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices' Hurdle on March 13.The classy six-year-old is a solid favourite to get the home team off to a flyer in the traditional curtain-raiser to the Cheltenham Festival, in which Irish-trained runners have won five of the last eight renewals.And despite his admiration for the mare, Henderson says she is a very different type to his previous winners, who tasted glory in the 1986 and 1992 renewals of the two-mile championship.'It's probably quite rare for a National Hunt-bred bumper horse to go for a race like this, which you'd usually associate with horses off the Flat,' he told At The Races.'Previously my horses River Ceiriog and Flown have been more like Flat horses.'But she has bags of toe and travels really well ? sometimes too well ? so the pace of the race isn't going to worry her.'(C) PA Sport
