Kelso next for Many Clouds

plans to send to for his final run before his bid for back-to-back Grand wins.

Many Clouds finished second to in the BetBright Trial Chase at on Saturday, having beaten the same horse in that race 12 months ago.

Last season, Many Clouds subsequently finished sixth in the before going on to beat Saint Are in the Grand National at .

This year, though, Sherwood plans to bypass Cheltenham and has instead lined up a trip to Kelso in early March for Many Clouds after being left satisfied by his run behind Smad Place.

Sherwood told UK: “Nobody likes being second, you like to win, but I was delighted with the way he travelled in the race, he jumped super.

“I'm very glad Smad Place didn't have a prep race before the last year as we'd have struggled to win the Hennessy last year!

“It was a good National trial. He'll come on for the run. In an ideal world I don't think we'd probably be mad on that ground, but he has handled it and we would have taken that at the start of the day.

“We”ll go up to Kelso. There are five weeks to that and then five weeks to the National, so that's the plan.”

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