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- Updated: December 6, 2016
A review of Tuesday’s action from Uttoxeter, where Champers On Ice recorded a wide-margin win on his chasing debut.
David Pipe is looking forward to seeing how far Champers On Ice can go this season following an impressive start to his chasing career at Uttoxeter.
The six-year-old won twice from five starts over hurdles last season and was placed on his other three starts behind the high-class trio of Shantou Village, Yanworth and Unowhatimeanharry.
Making his first start since finishing third in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, Champers On Ice was unsurprisingly a prohibitively priced 1/5 favourite to dispatch of his two rivals and did so with the minimum of fuss.
Of the obstacles that could be seen in the gloom, the grey jumped proficiently in the hands of Tom Scudamore and after emerging from the fog in a clear lead rounding the home turn, he comfortably stretched 27 lengths clear.
Runner-up Dueling Banjos was 14 lengths clear of the only other runner, Have A Go Hero.
Pipe said: “We’re …
