Tizzard's super seven: festival winners for the trainer of Native River

Colin Tizzard showed off his team for Cheltenham on Monday. James Burn recalls the seven festival winners the trainer is bidding to add to

Cue Card
2010 Weatherbys Champion Bumper
You never forget your first, do you? It is an odds-on certainty Tizzard will not forget Cue Card in a hurry and his horse of a lifetime made a spectacular first appearance at the festival, bolting up as a mere four-year-old under the trainer's son Joe for a memorable 40-1 triumph.

Cue Card spreadeagles the 2010 Champion Bumper fieldCredit: Edward Whitaker

Oiseau De Nuit
2011 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual
Another 40-1 shot, the Terry Warner-owned horse had been pulled up in the Grand Annual 12 months earlier but returned in decent form, having finished third in the Grade 2 Game Spirit on his previous start. Ridden by amateur Steven Clements, he recorded a comfortable victory in a race he would run in another three times.

Golden Chieftain
2013 Ultima Handicap Chase
The Tizzard stable is famed for staying chasers, which is exactly the type of horse Garth and Anne Broom of Brocade Racing adore as well, and Golden Chieftain gave his connections a sweet success, storming home by ten lengths in the hands of Brendan Powell jnr.

Cue Card
2013 Ryanair Chase
It takes a special horse to win at two Cheltenham Festivals and there was no doubt Cue Card was special. A Supreme fourth and Arkle second since his bumper win, the festival darling ran out a commanding winner of the Ryanair, strolling nine lengths clear of 2-1 favourite First Lieutenant.

Thistlecrack: all power in the 2016 World HurdleCredit: Edward Whitaker

Thistlecrack
2016 World Hurdle
Surprisingly Thistlecrack has made just one appearance at the festival, but he made it count with an authoritative victory in the last running of the Thursday feature under the World Hurdle title. As he had done in every start that season, he powered away from his rivals as soon as Tom Scudamore pressed the turbo.

Kilbricken Storm
2018 Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle
Tizzard's nose was bloodied on the first three days of last year's festival, but the smile was soon back on his face after Kilbricken Storm defied odds of 33-1 to land the Albert Bartlett, providing Harry Cobden with his first winner at the fixture. That was just the start of an epic day for the stable though.

Native River (red cap) getting the better of Might Bite in their duelCredit: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)

Native River
2018 Gold Cup
Some 45 minutes after Kilbricken Storm's success, Tizzard was floating way above cloud nine after Native River got the better of Might Bite in the most pulsating and absorbing of Gold Cups. The final-day highlight was one Tizzard had longed to win and now he had, thanks to the gamest of performers.

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