Phillips´ Training Career on Track Zara Phillips is set to saddle her first runner under Rules as a trainer at Cheltenham next week. Manor Down is due to contest the Red Mills Intermediate Point-To-Point Championship Final Hunters´ Chase after winning an intermediate point-to-point at the beginning of March. Phillips, who won the individual gold medal at the 2006 World Equestrian Games and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, missed seeing the 10-year-old spring a 20-1 surprise as she was competing in a three-day event in Portugal. However, Phillips´ representative Dolly Maude is hoping the daughter of the Princess Royal will be on hand this time. She said: "Hopefully, Zara will be there to see him because he is her first runner on the track and she´s really looking forward to it. "Manor Down has not performed well at Cheltenham in the past but he´s got to try. He can be a bit temperamental at proper racecourses, he quite likes point-to-points but his win in March qualified him for this race so it seemed like a good idea to have a go. "Zara had him in training with me and then he went to Grant Cann while I was having a baby. She asked me what she should do with him at the start of the season and I said that I thought she should train him herself because she´s better at it than the rest of us, so that´s what she´s doing. "Zara does absolutely everything with him. She rides him out every day and schools him - the whole lot is all down to her. She´s done a fantastic job because he is quirky but she´s made him really, really happy."
