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Cue Card makes strong hurdling debut • Champion Bumper winner could go to Cheltenham for next test• Aintree change Becher Chase date to guarantee TV coverageCue Card produced an almost flawless performance to maintain his unbeaten record as he made a winning debut over hurdles at Aintree.The winner of last year's Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival, Cue Card was set a reasonably stiff task for his first public encounter with obstacles. However, the 1-2 favourite produced some spectacular leaps on his way to success, none more so than at the second last when his jockey, Joe Tizzard, eased his vice-like grip on the reins and his mount flew the hurdle like a seasoned professional."I've had worse days," said the trainer Colin Tizzard, the rider's father. "I don't know how good he is, but that Cheltenham form is absolutely fantastic – everything that has come out of the race has won. He could go back there in three weeks' time now as he hasn't taken anything out of himself. He travelled supremely, almost too well, and when Joe asked him to come up for one he jumped out of his hands. There's a lot of responsibility that comes with having a horse as good as this and I just hope I'm up to it. Horses like this one don't come along very often."The bookmaker Blue Square makes Cue Card 6-1 favourite for next year's Supreme Novices' Hurdle and offers 25-1 about him winning the Champion Hurdle.Cool Friend put a run of second places to an end when getting the better of an attritional duel with Adams Island in the novice chase.The trainer Jeremy Scott revealed after the race that his stable star Gone To Lunch, second in the last two renewals of the Scottish Grand National, had suffered an attack of "shipping fever" on his return to the stables after this year's race and may not race again.Aintree's next meeting, headlined by the Becher Chase and the Grand Sefton Chase over the Grand National fences, takes place in four weeks' time. But the 2011 fixture list sees the card moved back by 13 days, alongside the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown."It helps to guarantee terrestrial television coverage and it's a move that we have been keen on because commercially we're more likely to make a success of the day on a Saturday than a Sunday," said the Aintree managing director, Julian Thick. "We have had to sacrifice being the feature meeting in order to share billing with Sandown but in doing so it creates a day of top-class jumps racing."Thick is less circumspect about the prospect, mooted by Racing For Change, that the jumps season could from 2012 be repositioned to conclude on Grand National day."There's still plenty of time to discuss things and we have worked very hard to increase the importance of the Grade One races at the meeting, but we'll have to see," he said. "Racing For Change have proposed the idea of a 'Road to Cheltenham' series and I'd like to see where Aintree fits into that."Personally, I'm not sure how I feel about the idea of handing out additional prizes to the owners of horses who have already won valuable races, so there would have to be considerable additional benefits for the sport in terms of PR."The Michael Jarvis-trained Opinion Poll finished third in the French St Leger, the Prix Royal-Oak. The race went to Gentoo, who completed a Group One double following his success in the Prix du Cadran on Arc weekend three weeks ago.Horse racingAintreeWill Haylerguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |