CHIPPING Norton trainer Charlie Longsdon has been asked to train two horses for the Queen.
The Oxfordshire handler has already welcomed a three-year-old filly called Sports Day, and is set to receive another horse in the spring.
Longsdon, pictured right, who saddled a treble on Saturday to move second in the trainers’ championship, admitted he is relishing the prospect.
“It’s a huge honour even to have been thought about to train horses for the Queen.
“Words can’t really describe how I feel.
“Hopefully the three-year-old will be a nice filly in time.
“I’ve had her for a few weeks and have been told another horse will arrive next spring.”
Meanwhile, Coneygree’s surprise absence from the William Hill King George VI Chase entries has been blamed on a “computer glitch”.
The Gold Cup winner, trained in Letcombe Bassett, near Wantage by Mark Bradstock, is set to make his comeback in Sunday’s 188Bet Future Stars Chase at Sandown.
But he did not feature in the 32 entries for the Kempton contest released on Wednesday.
“Basically, we’ve had a computer glitch,” Bradstock’s wife Sara said. “I don’t know what went wrong.”
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