AMY Murphy is still eyeing a tilt at the Ryanair Chase with stable star Kalashnikov.
The Grade 1 winner flopped when sent off favourite for a valuable handicap at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day.
But he was found to have bled in that contest and has subsequently been under the weather.
Newmarket-based Murphy reckons the seven-year-old is over his illness and she has not ruled out heading straight to the Festival without another run.
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Murphy said: “He was sick after Cheltenham. He bled and then he started coughing a few days after.
“I’d say he was harbouring something and I think that’s the reason he bled. He’s had some antibiotics and he’s absolutely fine.
“We can put a line through that run. He’d never been out of the first two in his life when he has completed.
