Joe Tizzard: “Elegant Escape can run a big race”

Coral ambassador Joe Tizzard gives us a lowdown on the Team Tizzard weekend runners.

Saturday

Taunton 12.58 – West Orchard and Champs Hill

West Orchard is a big baby of a horse who we are just going steady with but he ran well at Ascot just before Christmas.

This will be another step on the learning curve for him and I think Taunton will be a course he will enjoy. We think once he has a handicap mark, he can start being competitive.

Champs Hill disappointed us in his bumper where he came back wrong. We think he is much better than that and he is a chaser for the future.

Taunton 2.43 – Reserve Tank

Reserve Tank is back over hurdles and he is very much a spring horse as he loves the ground then. We will use this a springboard, but he seems well at home, and he won’t mind the ground and the track.

Taunton 3.15 – Elegant Escape

He has taken a couple of runs to get himself fit as he was off for over a year and this doesn’t look a great race on paper, as it is a small field.

Elegant Escape has an entry in the Grand National and that will probably be the plan at the back end of the season. I will be disappointed if he doesn’t run a big race here.