Brian Ellison’s Definitly Red to run in the Sky Bet Chase at Doncaster next month with the Cheltenham Gold Cup an option

DEFINITLY RED will continue his journey to Cheltenham with a run in the Sky Bet Chase at Doncaster next month.

Brian Ellison's eight-year-old was last seen winning a Grade 2 contest at Aintree earlier this month with connections now eyeing up a tilt at the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup later in the season.

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Ellison said: "He did it well at Aintree and Danny (Cook) said he had loads left. He will go for the Sky Bet at Doncaster now.

"He will have an entry in the Gold Cup and Grand National and he will go for one of them, or he might go for the Bowl at Aintree. He is only rated 3lb below Might Bite so he is in that bracket.

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"He only went up 1lb for winning at Aintree. He has been fair on him as the second and third probably didn't stay on that heavy ground.

"He does not mind heavy or soft ground. He is such a lovely-moving horse and when it is heavy he can go through it.

"He doesn't like it tacky, which it was at Wetherby, and like what it was when he unseated at Haydock last season."