Joe Tizzard: “Ultragold can go well in the Cross Country.”

Supasundae won the Coral Cup a couple of years ago and he’s become  Grade 1 horse since then. Vision Des Flos is a similar type of horse and I think he’s capable of winning a Grade One one day, so he can go well with a bit of luck in running. We think this trip suits him better than over two miles.

Highest Sun is quite an interesting horse in this. He won well last time, he’s improved all season and he was bought with a nice reputation.

He’s still filling out and these French horses sometimes take a little while to fully acclimatise. So I think we’ve still to see the best of him. Hopefully he has enough experience to travel well and then he could be slightly unexposed.

4.10 Cross Country Chase – Ultragold

He’s heading for the Grand National and we were trying to decide what to do with him, so we took him down to school over the cross country course two weeks ago and I’ve never seen a horse take so well to it. He absolutely loved it.

Harry was going to take a lead but then ended up in front and he went up and down the bank easily and loved every second of it.

I think the nature of this race will really suit him as he jumps for fun and I think it gives him a chance to breathe, a bit like running over the National fences in the Topham, compared to the park courses. I’m sure he’ll take to it and I think he’ll run a nice race. He has Tiger Roll to beat but our boy can go well.

5.30 Champion Bumper – Master Debonair

He’s a very smart bumper horse and is a listed winner around Cheltenham already. We purposefully save him for this after winning there.

He had a racecourse gallop at Wincanton a fortnight ago and he went really well. He’s ready to go and there are only 14 runners in the race.

We are really excited about running him. You never know what you are going to come up against in these bumpers but he’s as good as any of the English horses.

Joe