Lostintranslation delivers in Dipper

There was nothing lost about the performance as Lostintranslation scored his first win over fences in the Grade 2 Betbright Dipper Novices Chase for trainer Colin Tizzard and jockey Robbie Power.

Sent off at odds of 3/1, he battled back to collar Defi Du Seuil close home after a stellar round of jumping to win by 1 length, the pair drawing away from Black Op in third.

Black Op and Lostintranslation led at the start, the latter getting a better leap and going on by a few lengths. Black Op was high at the first and slow at the second, while favourite and chase debutant On The Blind Side was not fluent over the first and slow at the second.

Coming into the straight Defi Du Seuil jumped alongside Black Op at the third and outjumped him at the fourth as Black Op hit the fourth, seemingly taking a while to warm up. Not as much as the favourite though, who was drifting a little further back with each passing obstacle, though only 5 lengths off Black Op going into the country.

Defi Du Seuil gave a great leap at the first down the back, but once again On The Blind Side was slow, drifting to 10-12 lengths off the tail of the trio in front, the lack of a recent run and the gravity of his task beginning to tell.

Lostintranslation flew the first ditch, better than Defi Du Seuil, and again Black Op hit the fence, not quite making it as good a round as many of his supporters and trainer would have been hoping for. Lostintranslation and Defi Du Seuil both flew the ditch going up the hill, and put some more distance between them and their two rivals. Black Op again hit a fence, this time 4 out at the top of the hill, but On The Blind Side was dropping further and further back and not at all in any contention.

Coming down the hill both the two leaders were swinging on the bit as the pace increased, jumping 3 out with aplomb. Defi Du Seuil went on at two out, Barry sending him on to seal the race at the last. He jumped the last well and started off up the hill, but Lostintranslation wasn't done for yet, and pegged him back ina dogged, determined fashion up the hill to win by a length. Black Op was third, and On The Blind Side was a very remote last.

His supporters would have been with very much hope going into the race, buoyed by the fact his two time conqueror last month at Newbury, La Bague Au Roi, had just won the Feltham Novices Chase on Boxing Day at Kempton. They hoped he could at least show a good performance to back that piece of form up, and he certainly did to continue the good run of form of trainer Colin Tizzard.