Nicky Henderson running out of options to find Champion Hurdle prep race for Binocular Binocular lost his chance for an outing when last Saturday's Sandown Park card was abandoned, and Henderson has been struggling since to come up with a feasible alternative. "Binocular is our biggest problem," he said candidly. And summing up the options for him, there is not a great deal. There's the Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso next week [Feb 15] but that would be a journey in uncertain conditions. "We've got Grandouet for the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton [Feb 18] and that's always been his target, so that leaves us with Gowran Park [Red Mills Hurdle, Feb 18] but I'm not keen to go to Ireland, where they tell me the ground will be very testing," he said. Henderson has been able to keep his big team in full training on the all-weather gallop at Seven Barrows, but is concerned about how he going to find racecourse opportunities for his novices. There are a number of novice hurdlers and novice chasers that need runs for experience. And that is very shortly going to become a horrible problem as the deadline for the handicaps is coming up. For the novices you need to have three runs, [to get a Handicap mark] and a lot of mine are sitting on two. You need to have a third run and we haven't got long to go. You need to run them in the next 10 days and there are going to be some fiercely competitive races. I've got four or five that genuinely need to have another run in order to qualify. We won't be running two in a race but threes and fours if we're not careful," he said. Henderson walked Newbury with champion jockey A P McCoy yesterday and both appeared happy with their inspection only days ahead of the Betfair Super Saturday card. However, that news was tempered a little by the forecast for snow and rain later in the week. Nevertheless, on wednesday night Betfair customers were offering odds of 4-9 that the meeting will take place. Quito De La Roque, who scoped badly, and Jessies Dream, who worked poorly on Wednesday, are to miss the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday. Godolphin's dual Classic-winning filly Blue Bunting has been retired from racing after suffering a leg injury. She won the 1,000 Guineas and the Irish Oaks before beating her elders in the Yorkshire Oaks. Wolverhampton is the only surviving meeting on Thursday after the cards at Huntingdon and Taunton were claimed by the freezing weather. Friday's fixtures at Bangor and Kempton face an inspection at 8am on THursday and prospects for both appear bleak. Should Kempton's jump card be lost then an all-weather bumper card for jumpers will be staged instead. While hopes that Newbury will be able to race on Saturday continue to rise the meetings at Uttoxeter and Warwick are under serious threat. Uttoxeter inspect at 1.30 on THursday while Warwick will assess their prospects half-an-hour later. The BHA have announced that there will be an additional all-weather Flat meeting at Kempton on Saturday while Southwell will now stage an all-weather bumper meeting on Sunday.