Twiston-Davies was speaking to the racing media as he opened up his yard to the ‘hacks’ and offered his opinions about his strong team for the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival which begins on March 15. When asked to nominate one horse in the yard that might carry on where Imperial Commander (last season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner) leaves off, Twiston-Davies nominated Sybarite as potentially his next superstar. Anyone with Cheltenham free bets to place may want to take note of his words.
Although he has won only one of his four career starts to date and has yet to get his head in front over hurdles, the five-year-old has already shown good form and is an intended runner in the three-mile Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle on the final day of the fixture. After landing an Uttoxeter bumper on his racecourse bow the Dark Moondancer gelding ran a good race to be third under his penalty in a Cheltenham bumper before contesting a Grade 2 contest on his hurdles bow, running a fine race to be second the very useful Champion Court over two-miles-five furlongs back at Cheltenham.
Beaten a length by Chablais, (another potentially useful performer) at Kempton last time on a track that probably didn’t play to his stamina strengths, Sybarite showed enough to suggest that a strongly run three-miles back at Cheltenham would be very much up his street and Twiston-Davies is anticipating a bold show from a horse he believes will really come into his own when he eventually jumps fences.
Sybarite is generally on offer at 20/1 in the ante-post market for the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle.
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