Oscars Brother runs Ten Up rivals ragged

Oscars Brother opened up a whole range of options with another dominant display in the William Hill Racing Bet Builder Ten Up Novice Chase.

Trained by Connor King and ridden by his brother Daniel, he was racing for the first time in the famous JP McManus silks having been bought after winning the Florida Pearl Novice Chase last time out.

Sent off the 6-4 favourite, he was sent into an early lead and never saw any of his three rivals, opening up a wide margin by halfway before being given a breather.

The most impressive part of his performance was the way he quickened up between the final two fences to stroll to a six-length win over The Wallpark.

He was cut to 8-1 from 12-1 for the Brown Advisory Novices Chase at Cheltenham by Paddy Power, while he also holds an entry for the Grand National later in the season.

King only trains two horses and said: “It was a brilliant performance. Nice to get it out of the way anyway.

“He loved the ground, he had the ears pricked the whole way. It looked like he could have gone around again.

“He’s a very easy horse to ride, I just leave it up to Dan. He just likes to do his own thing there but, if someone wanted to give us a lead, we would be happy enough.

“He seems to be taking it (racing) well and improving. He jumped great there.”

When asked if he will go to the Brown Advisory, he replied: “I’m not sure. After the last day, we kind of had this race pencilled in. I suppose we can make more plans now.

“He’s a horse that takes his racing well, so we will see how he is during the week and go from there.

“The timing of it (Brown Advisory) would be good.

“We’ve always liked the horse and he keeps improving, so you never know where he could end up.

“We did the Grand National entry last week, so he would obviously need one more run. We still have time on our side.”