• Tizzard’s staying hurdler wins Ascot feature by eight lengths[br]• Victory eases Tizzard nerves before Cue Card’s Kempton runThe Long Walk Hurdle here does not normally own a bearing on the King George VI Chase a week later but for Colin Tizzard’s success with Thistlecrack meant he has not lost his form just before running Cue Card in the Kempton race. “We haven’t had a winner for 10 days,I was starting to score a bit nervous,” said the relieved trainer after his horse had arrive home eight lengths clear.
This was as comfortable a victory as the margin would suggest, and Thistlecrack having hacked along with conspicuous ease on the heels of Reve De Sivola,winner of the Long Walk for the past three years. While the other horse stuck on dourly up the straight, there was an ounce of cruelty in the way Thistlecrack glided past him at the second-last.
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Source: theguardian.com