The Game Changer gets in tight to the last but he flicked over well to beat Sizing Platinum© Photo Healy Racing
Smooth traveller The Game Changer enjoys the minimum trip around Roscommon, and he made it two from two over the course and distance at the Racecourse Road venue, landing the Grade 3 Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Kilbegnet Novice Chase under Bryan Cooper.
Back in trip favourite Sizing Platinum just couldn't get The Game Changer off the bridle, and once Cooper got there and asked his mount to go and win the two miler from the last, his response was sufficient to gain a two and a half length verdict.
The other two participants in the small field affair, King Of The Picts and Give Her Bach picked up healthy portions of prize-money, but they were seventeen lengths and seventy eight lengths off the big two.
Gordon Elliott has care of The Game Changer (11/8 into 11/10) for Gigginstown House Stud and he reasoned: "The ground suited him and going back to two miles also suited. Bryan might have got to the front too soon on him the last day at Galway.
"He is in at Tipperary on Sunday but he'll hardly run there. I'll give him a break on the real heavy ground in the winter and he'll come back in the spring for the big festivals. We'll probably keep him to two miles now.
"The horses are in good form."
(DM & EM)
