Ascot Chase: Pic d’Orhy kicks again while star Paul Nicholls retains Ascot Crown | Racing news
Pic d’Orhy produced a top -notch front screen to achieve it to win Betfair Ascot Chase.
The race went to a glittering start, with Pic d’Orhy, Corbetts Cross and L’homme Press, racing into the first fence and jumping three.
However, the first Corbetts cross put a few slower jumps to fall back, and then the leap of L’homme Press fell apart, which led to Charlie Deutsch.
Harry Cobden and Paul Nicholls Trained Pic D’Orhy (9/5) did not encounter such problems in front, and Mark Walsh was hard in work to make Corbetts in contact with home -turning.
Two more fine leaps down the straight, helped the 10-year-old leader first keep her advantage, and then clarify even more to overcome the accent, mitigated 10 lengths.
Variable man is maximally exploited by Jingko Blue Departure
The variable man ran his rivals to ask for a broad margin win in the second grade Ebony Horse Club Reynoldstown Novaces, earlier in Ascot.
After his favorite Jingko Blue split the company with Nico de Boinville, Brendan Powell set a strong gallop on a variable man and gradually established a significant advantage.
Peaky Boy cried enough before the fourth long and although his absence tried to haunt his leader, he never looked like he had landed on a temporary blow.
A man who was changing, who was second in each of the last three races, held a gallop to run a 24 -length winner in 7/2.
The winning coach Joe Tizzard said: “This race has been talked about for a while and we have done the right thing. The next few months is just a novak and will be entered for Brown Advisory [at Cheltenham].
“He deserves to take us to the big days and has become safe and convinced.
“He made a few stupid mistakes last season and again in the beer of the badger, but he couldn’t do more impressively here. It was a novak chase and you have to jump.”
The outraged Nicky Henderson suggested that Jingko Blue could make a quick re -appearance in Kempton next weekend, adding: “Fruestering is the least to say.
“We thought we had a great chance, but we also hoped to tell us where to go. Kempton was the only place I could remember, we would see how he was. He’s still a little raw.”
