Brewin’upastorm set for Gloucestershire trip

Trainer Olly Murphy has revealed Brewin’upastorm is being aimed at Cheltenham’s November meeting. Owned by Mrs Barbara Hester, Brewin’upastorm produced a late rally to make a successful chasing debut at Carlisle last Thursday, pipping the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Good Boy Bobby by a head in Cumbria. Although confident the six-year-old gelding can make a step up in distance, Murphy is keen to keep his charge at two miles for now and is targeting the Racing Post Arkle Trophy Trial at Cheltenham on November 17. “He was dropped in a long way at Carlisle and wasn’t 100 per cent ready – I was straight with everybody about that. He’d had a wind operation and was three weeks behind everything else, so he showed a lot of guts to win,” he was quoted as saying by Sky Sports. “I’d imagine we might go to Cheltenham in November for the Arkle trial if the ground is slow, and I will enter him in the two-and-a-half-mile novice chase as well.” Murphy has also hinted Brewin’upastorm could return to Carlisle next month, adding: “There is also a graduation chase at Carlisle, which might come a few days early. He is in very good form and he has come back out of the run very well.”