Jockey Dominic Elsworth feels the Ryanair Chase will be Somersby’s ideal race at the Cheltenham Festival despite winning in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot last Saturday.
Henrietta Knight’s eight-year-old also has the two-mile Queen Mother Champion Chase as a possible objective at the Festival, but his regular jockey believes the two miles and five furlongs of the Ryanair will be suited best.
"I just feel over two miles he can miss a jump out here and there," said Elsworth, who was securing his first Grade One winner at the weekend.
"It (the Ryanair) would be definitely more up his street. He does stay, and he's got the pace to lay it up to them over two and a half miles."
"He can miss a fence now and again and obviously Ascot being a bigger, longer, galloping track definitely played to his strengths He's as good as anything else in the Ryanair," Elsworth told At The Races.
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Somersby may not be a likely winner in the Queen Mother, but I see no reason why he wouldn't go close in the Ryanair.
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