Oscar aiming for Cheltenham this month Finian's Oscar will spearhead a strong team of horses trainer Colin Tizzard is preparing for the upcoming November meeting at Cheltenham. The dual Grade One-winning hurdler impressed on his debut over fences at Chepstow last month and is set to make his first appearance at Prestbury Park in the Steel Plate And Sections Novices' Chase on November 17. Wincanton victor White Moon is in line to tackle the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle on the same afternoon, while £260,000 purchase Slate House, who made a stylish debut under Rules at Cheltenham last month, is being targeted at the Sky Bet Supreme Trial on the Sunday of the three-day fixture. Tizzard said: "F inian's Oscar will go to Cheltenham and Bryan Cooper will be over one day this week to have a school. "We will probably take Slate House there as well, and White Moon. He (White Moon) is a lovely horse. It is unusual for us to have nice novice hurdlers. "We will keep them apart. Slate House will run over two miles and White Moon will run over two-mile-five. "It is just lovely to have these horses." Grade One-winning hurdler Pingshou will not return to action before Christmas after suffering a setback. Colin Tizzard's charge was a surprise winner of the Top Novices' Hurdle at Aintree's Grand National meeting last spring, but proved that victory was no fluke when third behind Cilaos Emery and Melon at Punchestown. Tizzard had hoped the seven-year-old would have made his seasonal reappearance by now, but his progress has been delayed by injury. "He has had a bit of a setback. He has had a niggling little splint injury and he has just been feeling it all the time," said the Dorset-based trainer. "That's why he has not been seen out yet. We just needed to do something with it and we have. "It will be Christmas time now before he is out but he has got to get fit first."
