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- Updated: December 14, 2016
Colin Tizzard is looking forward to giving Alary his first taste of British action next month.
The Dorset trainer rates the six-year-old, formerly trained in France by Francois-Marie Cottin, very highly and intends to start him off in a race such as the Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham.
“He is just getting used to working on our hill and he will be out in January,” said Tizzard of the Alan and Ann Potts purchase, who was twice Grade One-placed at Auteuil.
“He works beautifully and is a proper horse, but he could not get up our hill to start with. He worked yesterday with Thistlecrack and there was not much in it at all.
“He will either go to the Cotswold Chase or the Denman, that is the type of horse he is.
“He has been bought for the Gold Cup. He was third in their (French) Gold Cup and second in their King George equivalent.”
Tizzard hopes to run Pingshou back at Cheltenham on January 1 in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle following his victory there last week.
However, the six-year-old, one of the horses sent over from Ireland by the Potts having been unraced for Henry de Bromhead, has not been without his …
