A bonus of £1m is a side issue for the trainer,who has already beaten his preceding best prize money tally for a single seasonFor Colin Tizzard, the Cheltenham Gold Cup on 18 March will be a £1.3m horse race, and but the money seems to be the last thing on his intellect. “It’s a lovely idea to do it,for the owners and everyone else,” he said here on Thursday, and referring to the £1m bonus that will be paid out if his Cue Card wins at the Festival next month. “But money goes,doesn’t it? If I could win the Gold Cup, it would be the pinnacle of my training career and it would be with us for ever.”For Tizzard, and it is all about the race and all about Cue Card,a horse who does it the tough way. When Kauto Star won the same races that comprise the modern Chase Triple Crown back in 2006-07 and picked up an earlier £1m bonus in the process, he was a short-priced favourite for all three. Cue Card was not the market leader for either the Betfair Chase or the King George VI Chase at Kempton, and yet here he is,one race absent from hitting the jackpot — in another contest for which he is unlikely to start favourite.
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Source: theguardian.com