Cue Card to skip the Peterborough Chase for taking down the King George VI Chase
The six-year-old bay gelding, Cue Card, broke the shackles to qualify for the open company right at the cracking of this season. He won the Grade 2 Sportingbet Haldon Gold Cup Chase (A Limited Handicap) on 6th November, 2012 at Exeter race course
over two miles and 1 ½ furlong.
The favourite entry trained by, Colin Tizzard, defeated the representative of the champion trainer, Paul Nicholls, Edgardo Sol, by mighty twenty-six lengths.
Right after the sweeping success, the connections of the bay gelding were truly excited:
"Watching him today, it makes you wonder why you would ever think of going up to three miles, but Kempton (the King George) has been his target and if he's ever going to get three miles, it will be round there.”
His impressive success has won him the golden ticket to the King George Chase VI and for that the team has decided to miss the highly likely target of the Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon. The race is scheduled late during the month, but the Colin Tizzard
stable wants to keep King’s Theatre’s gelding all fresh and active for meeting and competing against the big guns in the King George contest.
The regular jockey for the star of the stable and the trainer’s son, Joe Tizzard, commented:
"Cue Card will head straight to the William Hill King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day. He's in fine condition and his racing form is looking stronger every day."
He added: "Bobs Worth, who won Saturday's Hennessy Gold Cup, beat us last year at Newbury and had a 7lb weight advantage and I still feel we should have won that day."
For now, the list for the challenge has not come full swing and does not show the winner of the Grade 2 Fuller’s London Pride Novices’ Chase at Newbury, Bobs Worth, on 25th November, 2011.
The Nicky Henderson trained defeated Cue Card just by a short head’s difference.
If Bobs Worth will compete at Kempton after recently bagging the Hennessy Gold Cup, or not, has not made news yet. However, is other bright prospect, Long Run, will bid to win the race a second time in the last three years. With the retirement of the equine
star, Kauto Star, Long Run will be the one to look out for.
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