Joe Tizzard: Licence switch won’t happen until next season

Coral ambassador Joe Tizzard previews the stable’s Saturday runners at Ascot races

Ahead of one of the stable’s stars, Lostintranslation, reappearing at Ascot races tomorrow, assistant trainer Joe Tizzard has confirmed he will not be taking over the licence from his father Colin until the end of this current season. 

Speaking exclusively to stable sponsor Coral, Joe outlined the reasons for the handover being delayed until next year: 

“In terms of how we run the yard, it will make no difference to how we do things whether it’s my name on the licence, or dad’s, and we’d never really discussed a formal time for the handover, it was just something that came up during lockdown, and it’s not really gone away since, even though as far as we’re concerned it’s not a big deal at all.

“I’ve done all my trainer’s modules now, but the application can take six-eight weeks to process, so that would have taken us through to the new year, and we just didn’t see any point in starting again from nought then.

“In terms of winners and so on, so it was an easy decision to just say we’ll change things over at the end of this season, and start next season from zero like everyone else.

“But as I say, even when we do change the names over, it won’t affect how we operate one bit, we’ve always worked as a team, not just dad and I, but everyone here.

“This season has gone great for us so far, the horses have been flying, and we’ll just be looking to keep that going.”

Grade One winner Lostintranslation is in fantastic form