“The way Saturday’s race is looking,” said George, “there will be a complete reshuffle in the Triumph betting afterwards, one will be halved in price and the others will be doubled!
“Baby Mix wasn’t far off Listed class when running on the Flat and was working and schooling well and showing us all the right signs before he ran [in December]. In fact his jumping was so good that we schooled him over fences a few times to make him realise it’s not quite so easy.
“Hopefully, he won’t need another run before the Triumph after Saturday. He has had plenty of experience on the Flat and we took the view that he ran well fresh in December. He’s where we want him at the moment.”
George is assembling a good little team for the Cheltenham Festival in March. The progressive Sivola de Sivola, a comfortable winner at Newbury last time, will be one of his more fancied runners when he lines up for the Pertemps Final and hopes in the yard will be similarly high for Olofi in the County Hurdle. He is much improved this season and was travelling really well when falling two out in a hot race at Newbury recently.
My Inheritance has shown a lot of speed and is unbeaten in two bumpers. He will take his chance in the Festival Bumper.
George will also be hoping that Module shows enough when he makes his British debut in Saturday’s concluding two-mile handicap hurdle to warrant inclusion in the team for March.
“We ran him in two £60,000 races at Auteuil and he was the only horse we had which wasn’t placed, but he was a bit unlucky both times.
“The first time he jinked at the last and the next time he was brought down at the last when he would probably have been second to Ozamo, the highest-rated four-year-old in France so he was very unlucky not to bring some money back. He’s a nice horse.”
