Walk In The Park’s No Drama This End Impresses With Cheltenham Win

No Drama This End (5g Walk In The Park - La Segnora, by Turgeon) became the latest Graded winner for Walk In The Park with a polished display in the Grade 2 Hyde Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham on Friday.

The gelding had run out a 23-length winner of a point-to-point at Badbury Rings for Will Biddick in February last year and had then sold to Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls for £160,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale a month later.

Ridden by Harry Cobden, the grey travelled strongly and came to take second spot two flights out. He led going over the last to post an impressive success on his first start over hurdles.

No Drama This End has won two of his three starts for Nicholls and looks set to step up to Grade 1 company shortly.

The trainer said: “He’s a real one without a shadow of a doubt. We thought he was, but until they go out and do it on the track you don’t know.

“He has shown us plenty at home and did a beautiful gallop at Newbury the other day. Nico de Boinville rode him that day and was smiling afterwards, he said he loved him.

“We think a lot of him, we’ve given him plenty of time and we’ll give him plenty of time, but there’s no doubt he’s a proper one.

“We need horses like this and he’ll go straight to the Challow now. He’s a proper big chasing horse who we will look after and will go chasing next year. We’ve a lot to look forward to with him and he’s always had something special about him all along – we just needed to see it on track which we did today.”

No Drama This End was bred by Mrs Dale Adams.