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Porlock Bay is about to take a holiday after his memorable victory in the recent St James’s Place Festival Hunters’ Chase.
The John Studd-owned ten-year-old was not entered in Aintree’s Randox Health Foxhunters’ Chase, and trainer Will Biddick said: “The horse is absolutely fine and came out of the race bouncing – he definitely knows he won – but he’s had a bit of leg trouble in the past and the owner has decided to look after the horse and put him away until next season when hopefully he [Studd] will be able to go racing and watch him in action. I assume the aim will be to go back to Cheltenham, probably after starting off in a point-to-point.”
Biddick, Britain’s most successful point-to-point rider, will be in action when the season resumes on Monday and is planning on paying his first visit to Hutton Rudby in Yorkshire. Oxfordshire trainer Alan Hill has booked the seven-time champion for a couple of rides.
Reflecting on the Cheltenham victory, Biddick said: “I’ve watched the race so many times on my own to relive it. You don’t get the same views watching it live. It’s still an unbelievable feeling to think I trained the winner when other people go a lifetime trying and failing to have a first at the Festival.
“I suppose I always felt there was an outside chance that I would ride the winner of the race, but never guessed I would do it as a trainer. That’s perhaps why I feel it’s a bigger achievement. The big winners I have enjoyed have always been wonderful, but they’ve never affected me emotionally in the way this one did.
“I’m one of the senior guys in the changing room and young riders might look up and hope they can ride as many winners as me, so I’m supposed to be the tough guy who doesn’t break emotionally, and yet I broke.”
Porlock Bay (Will Biddick) after their Kimble win
Asked if he laments not having been able to ride Porlock Bay due to the ban on amateur riders that has existed in recent months, Biddick said: “I wouldn’t change one part of the victory for anything. I’m so happy for the owner, the yard and for Lorcan [Williams, who rode Porlock Bay at Cheltenham]. I wouldn’t have taken the same line as him, and I might have been following Bob And Co down the hill and got caught up in his fall. We’ll never know, but it’s great for the sport of point-to-pointing that a small yard won the race using a 3lb conditional jockey who came up through pony racing and point-to-pointing.”
Biddick is expecting to head to Warwick on Tuesday to ride Caid Du Berlais in a hunters’ chase. That horse is entered for Aintree, but Biddick said he expected Punchestown’s Champion Hunters’ Chase to be on the agenda. Caid Du Berlais has won that race twice.
