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Tizzard Team Continuing in Fine Form
17/12/10
Jumps trainer Colin Tizzard had a fine time of things last season with his Cue Card winning the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham in March, and with that horse continuing to progress and others performing well for the yard, the Dorset-based handler looks set for his best ever season, writes Elliot Slater.
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Those over at betfair horse racing note that Insider Dealer's success at Exeter on December 16 kept the winners coming for the Tizzard team and confirmed that his horses remain in tremendous nick. Along with his son Joe, (rider of most of the Tizzard horses), Colin has already sent out 20 winners this term and is well on course for beating last term's seasonal best of 32.
Cue Card is undoubtedly the stable standard bearer after his scintillating victory at last year's Cheltenham Festival. Already this season the four-year-old has proved himself a high class hurdler, winning at Aintree on his hurdling bow before impressing all observers in routing Dunraven Storm by eight lengths in a Grade 2 contest at Cheltenham in November. Last weekend, some betfair Cheltenham pundits were present as Cue Card stepped into the big league to take on Menorah and Silviniaco Conti and ran another cracker to be second to Menorah and receive quotes of as short as 3/1 favourite for the Grade 1 Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
Amongst a number of other talented performers, Tizzard's Hey Big Spender is many people's idea of a serious contender for honours in some of the better staying chases later this season. A highly progressive novice chaser last term, the seven-year-old won at the first time of asking this term beating leading John Smith's Grand National candidate Big Fella Thanks at Carlisle. Having led for much of the way in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury last month, Hey Big Spender faded out of contention down the home straight and was a beaten horse when falling at the last.
Nonetheless, he remains a likely sort for the future and is another that will keep the Tizzard team in the spotlight for some time to come.
