Trainer Ryan Potter hopes Jetoile can give him lift off by edging out Constitution Hill in the Grade One Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown
- Ryan Potter believes Jetoile can make a major impact at Sandown on Saturday
- Jetoile will be looking to get the better of Nicky Henderson’s Constitution Hill
- Potter admits that it is a big ask but stated that he has faith in Jetoile’s ability
Trainer Ryan Potter believes Jetoile has the ability to make a massive statement for his emerging stable in Saturday’s feature Grade One Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown.
The 33-year-old from County Tyrone is based at the Caradoc stables where John Edwards trained a host of well-known horses including Yahoo, runner-up to Desert Orchid in the 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and Pearlyman, a two-time winner (1987 and 1988) of the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
But if Jetoile can shake up the Nicky Henderson-trained odds-on favourite and leading Supreme Novices’ Hurdle contender Constitution Hill, it would be a first step in Potter’s ambition to return the glory days to his stable near Ross-On-Wye in Herefordshire.
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Ryan Potter believes Jetoile can make a major impact in the Grade One Tolworth Hurdle
Jetoile was third at 80-1 on his debut for Potter at Cheltenham in October behind two horses who have both won again.
He went on to win at a maiden hurdle at Chepstow by almost 10 lengths before defying a penalty to land a novice event at Leicester.
Potter, who has made no secret of his high regard for Jetoile, said: ‘It is big ask for the horse, I am under no false illusions. I know he needs to improve again but I think he has. If you take the favourite out, it is a very open race. We came away from Cheltenham disappointed, even though he was a massive price. I thought he would win but it was a learning curve for him.
‘I think he will thrive on the (testing) ground. Leicester was soft and it gets really tacky there and he thrived on it.’
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Jetoile will be looking to get the better of the Nicky Henderson-trained Constitution Hill (R)
Potter came to Britain to become an apprentice farrier aged 17. He still works as a blacksmith but his focus is on building up Caradoc, having had seven winners so far this season.
Potter, who is in his first full season with a licence, added: ‘The yard had been sat empty for a few years. It needed tidying up and a bit of work done to it but the gallops were still fine. There is plenty of history there and if we could start to bring in a few winners it would be brilliant.
‘We only have 16 in but we have an exciting bunch of lovely young horses, a lot of horses which haven’t run yet.
‘I have two good lads working for me in my farrier business and I am in the yard in the morning and shoeing horses in the afternoons. I sleep well at night!’