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- Updated: September 19, 2016
Trainer Colin Tizzard is praying for rain to allow Thistlecrack to make his chasing debut at Chepstow next month.
Last season’s star staying hurdler is set to embark on a career over fences this season and is already favourite with some bookmakers for the Cheltenham Gold Cup next March.
Tizzard reports his eight-year-old in fine form ahead of his intended return in the two-mile-three-furlong totequadpot Novices’ Chase on October 8, a race the Dorset-based trainer won with Cue Card on his chasing bow five years ago.
Native River was third in the same contest last season before going on to win at Grade Two and Grade One level before the end of …
