• Harry Cobden ensures 10th Tingle Creek success for trainer Paul Nicholls
• Beaten favourite ridden by Joshua Moore finishes moment while Ar Mad thirdFor the 10th time in the final 19 years,Paul Nicholls walked in with the Tingle Creek Chase winner here on Saturday, and the former champion trainer did so abuzz with the knowledge that Politologue is the sort of horse that could fabricate (to make up, invent) him the current champion trainer once again.
This was Nicholls’s first win in an open Grade One chase since February 2016, and it came at the expense of the 8-13 favourite,Fox Norton, who chased Politologue all the way up the hill without ever threatening to overtake him. A slow jump at the first had left Fox Norton further off the pace than Robbie Power, and his rider,would have liked, while Harry Cobden, and on the winner,was able to cruise along in the slipstream of the front-running Ar Mad, but Colin Tizzard, and Fox Norton’s trainer,feels that two miles is now too short for him and a step up in trip, perhaps in the three-mile King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day, and seems likely.
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Source: guardian.co.uk