Colin Tizzard
Colin Tizzard

Challow Hurdle option for Colin Tizzard trained White Moon


White Moon could tackle Grade One company next time in the Betfred Challow Hurdle at Newbury.

Trainer Colin Tizzard is considering the December 30 prize for the five-year-old, who is 16/1 with Sky Bet for the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, after he made it two from two over hurdles at Exeter last week. 

The Milborne Port handler said: "He is a beautiful young horse.

"To make him into a Cheltenham Festival winner, we thought was it best going to Cheltenham (November Meeting) or going to Exeter? We thought it would be better going to Exeter. A lot of others have done that and you can never say Exeter is that much easier.

"It looked a good race on paper and the way he did it, he looks a very exciting novice hurdler.

"We've not gone gung-ho with him at home. Harry Cobden reckoned he felt 20 lengths better at Exeter than he had (first time out) at Wincanton.

"The horse has got better and where we end up, I don't know, but he has got everything going for him at the moment. That is his two novices and he will go in a bigger one now.

"We have got to be thinking of races like the Challow now. Wincanton was really good ground and Exeter was soft and he handled both. He is a winter horse and we won't swerve heavy ground."

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