Cue Card isn’t going for Gold, admits Tizzard

CUE CARD will run in the Ryanair Chase rather than the Cheltenham Gold Cup next month.

The popular 12-year-old has fallen at the third-last fence in the last two runnings of the Gold Cup when still in with a chance.

But trainer Colin Tizzard and owner Jean Bishop have opted for the shorter race that Cue Card won in 2013 and Coral make him 10-1 to win it again.

Tizzard said: ‘The Gold Cup is a hard race and the best chance of winning is the Ryanair. It wasn’t a hard decision in the end. Our heads are ruling our hearts.’

On the final weekend of trials for the Festival, one that impressed was the Alan Kingtrained Redicean, who made it three wins from three runs at Kempton with a sevenlength defeat of Malaya in the Adonis Hurdle. He is 9-2 for the Triumph Hurdle.