HENDO'S PALLADIUM FLAW SHOW

PALLADIUM failed to bring the house down when the world-record buy made his hotly anticipated hurdles bow at Huntingdon yesterday.

- DAVID YATES

Last year's Deutsches Derby hero, who went under the hammer for £1.4million in October, became the most expensive horse bought at public auction to race over jumps when he went off the 8-15 hotpot for the Pertemps Network Maiden Hurdle (Div II).