Fitz Content With Ungaro Return

Mick Fitzgerald was happy with Ungaro's seasonal reappearance at Carlisle on Sunday ? even though he finished last of three behind L'Antartique.

The veteran jump jockey believes Keith Reveley's charge, winner of the Grade One Feltham Novices' Chase at Kempton last Christmas, needs to be dropped a few pounds to be given a chance of resuming winning ways.

Fitzgerald said: 'He jumped very well on the whole but he made one little mistake.

'I made the running on him only because I felt he'd very keen in behind and it would be a messy race, he won't jump as well as he can.

'The horse has run to his mark, which I think is too high.

'He was giving weight to a very good horse in L'Antartique, a previous winner at the Cheltenham Festival.

'I think really he needs to come down a bit in the handicap to be competitive.

'He had a tough race but, at the same time, the horse was ready to go to battle and the ground was quite nice up at Carlisle,' he told At The Races.

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