DARE Me is a very interesting contender in the freebets.com Trophy at Cheltenham today.

He ran well into the early summer last year so Venetia has taken her time with him.

He was seventh in both the Grand Annual and Red Rum Chase at the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals before signing off with a third at Perth at April.

This is his first run back but I wouldn’t say that’s a negative, and this two miles and five-furlong trip will be right up his street. He should go very well at a nice price.

My other two rides could be up against it. I kick off with Astigos in the Timeform Novices’ Handicap Chase. He’s pretty consistent but finds it difficult to win. That’s probably being generous given he’s only won once in 38 attempts over rules.

However, he has run some very decent races in defeat and could run into a place.

Landscape has only run once for us, having joined us from Paul Nicholls in 2013.

That solitary outing came in the Ladbroke Hurdle 13 months ago at Ascot, where I pulled him up. He suffered an injury and has been given plenty of time to recover. The Steel Plate and Sections Hurdle looks a competitive race and, given he’s coming back from an injury, it’s difficult to be overly positive.

I have had a good run of nice Saturday wins, with Baradari being the most recent to oblige at Ascot last week.

He won a decent Grade 2 Hurdle and it was very satisfying. We’ve always held him in high regard and thought he was capable of winning a big race.

I held him up in the Fred Winter last season and he finished very fast, which made me think he could have won if he’d been ridden closer.

As a result, I subsequently rode him more prominently without success and we reverted to the hold-up tactics. They worked to great effect as he flew home to grab Lyvius near the line.

He will probably run in the Coral Cup or Pertemps, although we need to get him qualified for the latter.

After racing, I attended the stewards’ inquiry into my ride on Emperor’s Choice in the Coral Welsh Grand National from three weeks earlier.

I was actually expecting around four days, so I was fine with receiving just that. The actually enquiry itself was pretty standard and straightforward.

The Chepstow stewards had travelled to Ascot just for this and held their hands up and admitted they’d made a genuine mistake in not holding the enquiry straight after the race. These things happen, and we all move on.

As I mentioned before, a lot of kind things were said about my ride and I didn’t see one negative comment, which is most unusual in this day and age. So there were positives to take out of the whole episode, not least a Welsh Grand National win!

As for Emperor’s Choice, he might next run in the Grand National Trial at Haydock next month although he won’t be running in the big race itself this year.

I just don’t think his jumping is up to it yet. He didn’t cope well with the Sandown fences in the London National and he did make mistakes, including a bad one at the ditch at Chepstow.

With another season of jumping under his belt, he will hopefully be a contender for the 2016 Crabbie’s Grand National.

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