Haiti Couleurs Delights With Newbury Comeback Win

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Haiti Couleurs delighted in the ideal tune-up for a possible tilt at the Betfair Chase when making a winning reappearance in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle at Newbury.


Rebecca Curtis' Cheltenham Festival and Irish Grand National hero was dispatched at 17-2 in the hands of Sean Bowen for his return over the smaller obstacles and his endurance came to the fore in the closing phases, as the champion jockey outbattled his sibling James Bowen aboard runner-up Bill Baxter.


Britain's shortest-priced contender for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Haiti Couleurs holds an entry for the Coral Gold Cup back at Newbury on November 29, but Curtis is lured to divert to Haydock a week earlier with her star chaser.


Curtis told Sky Sports Racing: "I'm not extremely stunned he won as I knew he was actually well and had enhanced from in 2015.


"I hoped he would run among those races where you complete in the very first 5, but viewing him go round I understood he was going to win due to the fact that of the way he was travelling and you understand he remains.


"He ran difficulties off 135 last year and was beaten, but he's won off 10lb greater here, so it looks like he has enhanced."


Haiti Couleurs made a winning return at Newbury (David Davies/PA)


One what comes next, she included: "There's pros and cons to both races, our primary goal was the Coral Gold Cup but it's good to firm here today on the chase track and taking a look at the projection they are not due excessive rain here next week.


"He'll enter into that off top-weight probably and Dan's (Skelton, Protektorat and Grey Dawning) ranked greater won't run.


"The Betfair Chase is truly tempting, I understand it's just two and a half weeks away but he's the kind of horse you can get away with doing that with and he will be fresh on Monday morning.


"I will chat to the owners and decide what they desire to do, but I would be siding that way now. You would hope he might be a Gold Cup horse, however I'm not going to push him down that roadway if he's not to that level.


"I enjoy the way he has actually enhanced and you have seen how difficult he is and he remains so well. He can go a great gallop and those are all the things you need for a Gold Cup, so we will see, it's interesting."


Haiti Couleurs may not be to Newbury on 'Hennessy day' however one who could is Harry Derham's Jackie Hobbs after making a winning obstacles launching in the CSP Mares' Novices' Hurdle as the 13-8 favourite.


A useful bumper entertainer last term, she was handed a quote of 20-1 by Paddy Power for the Mares' Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, however in the immediate she could contest the Listed Play Coral "Racing-Super-Series" Mares' Novices' Hurdle.


Derham stated: "She was great and I believed it was quite a deep race. The thing I was most happy about was how well she leapt and she remains 2 miles well, so Paul (O'Brien) wanted to make plenty of use of her.


"He said she had a real great blow from the back of three out, so you wish to believe she would improve plenty and she's a very nice mare and one to look forward to.


"Returning to Newbury is a certain option as long as she comes out of this all best and remains in excellent kind - we would definitely consider it.


"It would be good to wind up in a race like the Jane Seymour at Sandown later in the year, however it's good to overcome the very first difficulty today and it will be good making strategies with her from here."


Anthony Honeyball's Lord Baddesley (6-4) got home in superb isolation to win the Daily Racing Boosts At BetVictor Handicap Chase, while the concluding British Horse Society Open National Hunt Flat Race went the way of Chris Gordon's 13-8 preferred Bass Hunter.

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