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CURLEY DUO SOLD TO JOIN LUNGO

Magic Combination and Silvertown have been bought out of the Barney Curley stable and will continue their careers with Lenny Lungo at Carrutherstown.

Lungo revealed today: 'They have been bought privately for Richard Gilbert and we will give them three weeks or so to settle down and get into our National Hunt routine and feeding.

'Silvertown is a winner on the Flat and we will school him over hurdles and if he does not take to them we will put him away for the Flat next season.'

Magic Combination won the Sunderlands Imperial Cup at Sandown in March and then went on to be far from disgraced though unplaced in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival four days later.

Lungo went on: 'We plan to school him over fences and see how we go, but if he does not like them then we will go back hurdling.

'They are two very nice horses to have in the yard and I am pleased we have got them.'

Fatehalkhair, who finished runner-up to the highly rated Best Mate at Cheltenam last week, may return to Prestbury Park next month says trainer Brian Ellison.

Ellison reasoned: 'He was brilliant the other day, his jumping was out of this world and I think he learned from his fall at Sedgefield.

'If the ground had been faster at Cheltenham he would have really quickened off the bend you know so I could not have been more pleased with him.'

He went on: 'In the long term we want to go for either the Arkle Trophy or the two miles handicap at the Cheltenham Festival - he has gone up 6lb to 126 in the ratings now.

'But the next plan at the moment is to go for a #20,000 handicap (Wragge & Co Handicap Chase) at Cheltenham on December 9th - we will keep him over two miles.'