The Twiston-Davies crew have their eye on Winter Million riches for Wayward Lad scorer Master Chewy, who’s poised to proceed his climb up the novice chasing ranks at Lingfield subsequent weekend.
The seven-year-old failed to seek out the scoresheet when extremely tried over hurdles final season, however has actually discovered his ft since switching to the bigger obstacles this time period.
An spectacular winner on his chasing bow, he then needed to settle for second when bumping into high chasing prospect Djelo and an in-form Elixir De Nutz in his subsequent two begins, however bought again to profitable methods in type at Kempton over Christmas when profitable the Grade Two Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase with ease.
That victory has seen the assessor bump Master Chewy’s ranking up 10lb to 150 and, delighted with the progress he’s making, connections will now head to Lingfield’s Winter Million Festival for both additional Graded motion within the Lightning Novices’ Chase or a shot on the £50,000 Godstone Handicap Chase on the ultimate day of the three-day assembly.
“He’s come out of Kempton very well,” stated Willy Twiston-Davies, assistant to his father Nigel.
“He’s going to have twin entries at Lingfield subsequent weekend within the Lightning on Friday and the large handicap on the Sunday, so we’ll have a look at them and if racing is off we’ll look on to the long run.
“We are very excited by him and he is now as much as 150 so he has confirmed he is among the high novices on this nation anyway.
“It’s good prize money at Lingfield and it’s a meeting that needs supporting so hopefully we will have a few runners over the two (jumps) days.”
Watch the Winter Million Festival live on Sky Sports Racing from Friday January 19.
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