CARTMEL racehorse trainer Jimmy Moffatt sends his stable star Chief Dan George out to face Gold Cup winner Imperial Commander at Haydock races today.
Moffatt's staying chaser is having his first appearance on a racecourse since he sprang a 33-1 shock by beating The Package by a head at the Cheltenham Festival last March.
Although the Chief is some 30lb plus behind Nigel Twiston-Davies' Gold Cup winner and rated a 50-1 outsider for today's Betfair Chase, Moffatt said: "We've taken on Imperial Commander once before and beaten him.
"We beat him in the Sefton Hurdle at Aintree. That's just a straw we can hold on to. "
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