Tyneandthyneagain to run in Agfa Chase

Tyneandthyneagain is set to bid for a big-race triumph on successive Saturdays by turning out for the Agfa Diamond Handicap Chase at Sandown.

The nine-year-old gelding has come out of his victory in the Skybet Handicap Chase on stamina-sapping ground Doncaster last Saturday in such good form that his trainer Richard Guest has no worries about running him again so quickly.

“He is so well that you wouldn’t know he’d had a race,” said Guest.

Tyneandthyneagain made light of the soft ground at Doncaster to score by six lengths from Magical Bailiwick in the race formerly known as the Great Yorkshire.

The horse thrives on racing and Guest is keen to capitalise on the gelding’s love of soft ground.

“As he loves his racing, we are likely to go for any decent three-mile plus chases on soft ground,” added the trainer.

Tyneandthyneagain has been raced 14lb by the handicapper for his victory last Saturday and has been given 11st 5lb in the £50,000 (€73,000) contest over an extended three miles at Sandown.

His main target could be the Martell Cognac Grand National, which Guest won as a jockey on Red Marauder in desperate conditions three years ago.

Tyneandthyneagain, who has been handed 10st 5lb, is generally a 33-1 chance for the National.

Guest has two other possibles for Aintree in Red Striker (10st 5lb) and Mr Bossman (9st 8lb).