Joe Tizzard: “We’re super excited about White Moon over fences.”

The Tizzard crew preview their Friday chances

Friday – Cheltenham

12.40 – Bally Longford

We kick off a busy weekend with Bally Longford.  He’s a generally consistent sort who got his head in front at Newbury on his last run of last season, and hopefully that win will have done his confidence on the track a world of good.

We’ve been waiting for the ground to come right to run him again, and this is the right race to start him off.  [His owners] the Potts family will be at Cheltenham this weekend, so it will be nice for them to see him run.  It’s a competitive looking race, but he’s about where we want him

 1.15 – Rockpoint & Sizing Cusimano

We run two in this, Rockpoint and Sizing Cusimano.  The latter won a little race at Market Rasen, and he looks to be on a sensible mark.

Ideally he wants further, but we should get away with it here as there are plenty of runners and it should be a strongly run race, and he’ll be doing his best work at the finish.

I think he has the potential to win off this mark, whether it will be in a race as competitive as this, we’ll have to wait and see.

Rockpoint is a lovely horse, who was unlucky not to win a race last season, as he ran some excellent races.

He’s filled out nicely over the summer, and is a potentially a really nice horse who could run a big race, and I’d say he has the better chance of our two here.