Joe Tizzard (12 October 2022): "He looks fantastic, and he doesn’t get his head in front many times but he is a decent horse. I am probably going to run him in a Pertemps Qualifier at Aintree before going for the Coral Gold Cup at Newbury. He will then have a break before being prepared for the Grand National - they are his two big aims."
Colin Tizzard (04 April 2022): "The Grand National has always been the plan since he finished runner-up in the Ladbrokes Trophy at Newbury and we purposely didn’t run him until the weights were announced. In hindsight, his Ascot run was a decent run, but I didn’t actually enjoy watching it too much as he didn’t travel or jump as well as he can. He still came there to win his race at the last and showed he is capable off this sort of mark. He seems in great form and has a had a school over the National style fences down at David Pipe’s. He jumped them really well and isn’t mega exuberant but just a good accurate jumper. With a bit of luck in running I see no reason why he won’t be bang there crossing the Melling Road and then from there it is wide open. We know what Nationals are about but if he gets a bit of luck in running, I can see him getting into it. He jumped really well in the Ladbrokes at Newbury and just got baulked a little bit which may have cost him the race and it a first time we’ve really set a horse out for the race. He ticks a few boxes, and we will see what happens as you need a lot of luck."
Colin Tizzard (02 March 2022): "I don’t think I’m going to run Fiddlerontheroof in the Gold Cup. My old man tells me every morning that Fiddlerontheroof’s best preparation for a Grand National is the Gold Cup, but I don’t know. Unless he wows us next week he won’t be running as the plan is to take him to the Grand National off of 155. I was a bit disappointed at Ascot, but he probably ran a blinder. He didn’t travel like he could, but he still got there to win his race at the last. He could be a proper Grand National horse. One of the guys that owns him, Nick Burley, is a Liverpool boy and he wants to have a go at a Grand National so that is what we will do. He is a good stayer and is arguably unlucky not to win a Ladbrokes and arguably unlucky not to win at Ascot the other day. We have saved him for the spring. It wasn’t a pretty watch at Ascot as he is normally a better traveller, and he didn’t jump as well as he can. I didn’t enjoy watching it until two out when I thought he was going to win with his class. You would like to think over a Grand National if he gets in a nice rhythm he could just travel well. We’ve never really had a proper stab with a horse at the Grand National. I mentioned it to dad at Christmas time after talking to the boys. He said where are going to run that as he hasn’t run for a long time, and I said the National and he said I’ll have that in my name still. He would have to be the best we have sent there. They set up the fences at David Pipe’s so we will go down there a couple of times and do it all properly."
