"To back it up after three weeks [from his last win at Sandown] is not ideal [but] we wanted to give him a nice bit of time before Cheltenham rather than go to Trials day [in late January] and it's worked out beautiful, so we'll go straight to the festival. I'd say that will be his last run over hurdles if that goes right, then we'll go chasing."
"No Drama This End was already the favourite for the Turners Novice Hurdle over two miles and five furlongs at Cheltenham in March before Monday's race, and was cut to a top price of 4-1 to go one place better than Denman, the runner-up in 2006, and give Nicholls his first ever victory in the race."
"Someone just said to me, how does he compare with your other Challow winners, like Denman and Bravemansgame and all those, Nicholls said, and he compares with all of them. In three runs over hurdles, he's won two Grade Twos and a Grade One, and none of them achieved that."
Paul Nicholls, a 14-time champion, recorded a double as No Drama This End won the Grade One Challow Hurdle and Minella Yoga emerged as a Cheltenham contender. No Drama This End, a five-year-old sent off at 4-9, made all the running under Harry Cobden to win by one-and-a-quarter lengths. The horse has three hurdle runs with two Grade Two wins and one Grade One. Nicholls intends to go straight to the Cheltenham Festival and expects that to be the horse's final hurdle outing before switching to chasing. Odds for the Turners Novice Hurdle were cut to 4-1.
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