No plans will be made for Maximiser for the next couple of weeks after his nasty fall at Newbury last week.
No plans will be made for Maximiser for the next couple of weeks after his nasty fall at Newbury last week.
Simon West's grey was running in the Grade Two novices' chase won by Dan Skelton's Three Musketeers when he fell at the 11th fence.
The seven-year-old was down for some time but thankfully was able to get to his feet and while he escaped serious injury, West will not rush him back into action.
"He was very sore, more behind really, he got clipped by Sametegal on his way past, but it could have been a lot worse," said West.
"He's actually got a problem with his tail but there's not much we can do about that, we'll just have to see how it is over the next week to 10 days.
"It's frustrating as he was jumping well, but it was too early to tell how he'd have fared so we're none the wiser.
"We obviously know he's pretty good as his Carlisle form was franked by Silsol, but you'd rather see them go and do it themselves.
"I panicked when he didn't get up so the most important thing was we brought him home.
"As he was rated 143 over hurdles we can't really look for just a little race, we tried that at Carlisle and Silsol and Seeyouatmidnight turned up.
"We'd even discussed the World Hurdle route as that doesn't look the strongest.
"We were going to go for the Feltham at Christmas but I won't do that now after what's happened.
"We'll give him a couple of weeks and then make a plan."