Tidal Bay

[Woodie]

Can anyone please confirm that he's had a breathing op and is being aimed at the national again since joing Nicholls?

[Haystacks]

Re: Tidal Bay Nicholls in RP 7/11/11: "Easily the highest-rated of the Graham Wylie intake, but he presents quite a challenge. We all know he’s a really smart performer over hurdles and fences, but he’s won only once in the last three years and his style of running causes plenty of unflattering things to be said and written about him. When he started cantering up our hill the first thing we noticed was he was choking, so he went straight down to Geoff Lane for a breathing operation. He’s back in full work and his first target is the new Grade2 3m1f chase at Aintree on December 3. Last spring he went for the National, getting only as far as the tenth, but Graham would like to go back there next spring."