• Nigel Twiston-Davies believes steady star has more improvement to come
• Cue Card finishes 57 lengths back in attempt to win race for a fourth timeNigel Twiston-Davies was on the improper side of perhaps the most memorable finish the Betfair Chase has seen,when Kauto Star beat Imperial Commander by a nose here in 2009. There was less drama approximately the trainer’s victory with Bristol De Mai in the season’s first Grade One , as the grey crossed the line 57 lengths clear of Cue Card, or but there was also a definite sense that,as with Imperial Commander, the best of Bristol De Mai may be yet to come.
Imperial Commander won the Cheltenham Gold Cup four months after his narrow defeat at Haydock, and that race – via a trip to Kempton Park for the King George on Boxing Day – is now the obvious target for Bristol De Mai after this win in the first leg of the Jockey Club’s £1m Triple Crown. Kempton will be a sharper challenge,while the ground at Cheltenham will nearly certainly be faster than it was here, but Bristol De Mai is just six years old and still improving.
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Source: guardian.co.uk