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Best yet to come from Cue Card says Tizzard

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Colin Tizzard poses with Cue Card

Colin Tizzard poses with Cue Card at his yard on Thursday

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 By Lee Mottershead 8:00PM 25 FEB 2016 

CUE CARD is capable of delivering a Cheltenham performance “a stone better” than his personal best King George VI Chase-winning display, according to devoted trainer Colin Tizzard.

In delivering a hugely upbeat bulletin, Tizzard, who also agreed with bookmakers that Thistlecrack deserves to be hot favourite for the Ryanair World Hurdle, argued Cue Card would be heading the Timico-backed Cheltenham Gold Cup market if he were trained by Paul Nicholls or Willie Mullins.

On Wednesday Nicholls revealed he would be “absolutely screaming and shouting for Cue Card to win”, and plenty others will be doing the same, with the ten-year-old – a Grade 1 Cheltenham Festival winner for the first time six years ago – certain to be the choice of romantics on March 18.

Having already landed this season’s Betfair Chase and King George, Paddy Brennan’s mount will earn connections the Jockey Club’s new £1 million bonus if he is able to capture the Gold Cup which most layers quote him at 6-1. Preferred in the betting are Irish trio Don Cossack, Djakadam and Vautour – grabbed on the line by Cue Card at Kempton – while Don Poli is another who will vie for favouritism on the day.

Jean Bishop’s six-time Grade 1 winner – successful in the Ryanair Chase on his most recent festival appearance in 2013 – has been transformed by a breathing operation and heads to Kempton in “absolutely brilliant form” with a Kempton workout on Saturday set to form a further part of his preparation.

“I can’t say he’ll win, but I think we have a better chance of winning the Gold Cup than we had of winning the King George,” said Tizzard during a media event at his Spurles Farm stables.

“He’s brilliant around Cheltenham. He can have a breather coming down the hill and then go again. I would say he’s a stone better at Cheltenham than Kempton. He didn’t even jump that well at Kempton. He’s up against young horses who could be improving – but he could still be improving at ten.”

Read more on Colin Tizzard’s big guns, including a horse-by-horse guide to his festival squad, in Friday’s Racing Post – available on iPad NOW

 

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