Joe Tizzard Friday runners blog - October 9, 2026

Joe Tizzard has four runners at Chepstow on Friday, October 9, 2026. The Coral ambassador previews them all in his latest exclusive blog.

• Tennessee Tango - Chepstow - 3.12 race odds

• Opening Bid & Fight My Fire - Chepstow - 4.17 race odds

• Reel Orange - Chepstow - 5.31 race odds

Chepstow 3.12 – Tennessee Tango

The dry weather hasn’t really held us up in terms of working the horses at home, as we have the all-weather gallop, but what is has meant is we haven’t particularly rushed to get them going early on, as we know we’re at least a couple of weeks behind where we’d normally be as far as the going on track is concerned.

Chepstow have done a great job getting the ground ready for hurdles races at this meeting, and we’ll run a few here this weekend as it will give me a good pointer as to where the horses are at.

We are throwing Tennessee Tango in at the deep end here, he will go chasing soon enough, but he’s fit and ready, and the wind-op he had at the end of last season seems to have worked, based on his homework, his wind was certainly stopping him on softer ground last year.

This is a deep, 17 runner race, and it should be competitive, but I think he’s well-handicapped, and if he did go and run in the first half a dozen, we might just delay his chasing career and keep him over hurdles for a while longer.