Newbury preview (14.10): Un Temps Pour Tout to turn on the style

David Metcalf | November 26, 2015

Un Temps Pour Tout failed to live up to expectations when runner-up on debut over fences, but can build on the experience to go on better and land a cracking 2m 7f novices’ chase on today’s card at Newbury (14.10).

The gelding joined trainer David Pipe for a whopping £450k after showing smart form in France, and came good at the second time of asking for the Pond House handler when slamming Cole Harden by 16 lengths in a novice hurdle at Ascot back in February 2014.

Un Temps Put Tout went on to finish an excellent sixth of 16 to that rival in this year’s running of the World Hurdle here at the Festival, and backed that up with a solid third in a Grade 1 contest at Aintree.

The six-year-old was then given a break before posting a career-best performance to land the Grade 1 French Champion Hurdle at Auteuil back in June.

Un Temps Pour Tout made all to slam Thousand Stars by 10 lengths, and it was a performance which earned an official rating of 163 and made him the highest rated novice hurdler in Britain.

The son of Robin Des Champs was sent off odds-on on the back of that success to make a winning return to action on his eagerly awaited chasing debut at Cheltenham earlier in the month.

Things went to plan for much of the contest, with Un Temps Pour Tout jumping well and seemingly travelling strongly rounding the home turn.

However, he then didn’t find as much as expected when push come to shove and went down by 2 3/4 lengths to Vincente after being headed at the last.

It may well have been that he needed the race, and at the time the stable was under a bit of a cloud.