Diamond Days headed to Lingfield on Tuesday to make his first start over fences following his seasonal reappearance at Fontwell just a couple of weeks ago.

After a promising first season on the course, Diamond Days had an excellent summer and impressed on his return at Fontwell earlier in the month. He jumped with enthusiasm and travelled strongly throughout, which led to trainer Joe Tizzard making the call to give him the green light to make his chase debut sooner rather than later. He had been schooling over fences at home in the build up to his first run of the new campaign and with race fitness now on his side, the Tizzard team sent Diamond Days to Lingfield with plenty of optimism.

Tuesday's race at Lingfield was a small field of five runners, with just one of Diamond Days' rivals having had experience over fences previously. It was a nervy first fence for our son of Diamond Boy as he appeared to misjudge it slightly, but he soon recovered under jockey Freddie Gingell and went on to put in some glorious leaps over the next few fences. He continued to travel with plenty of enthusiasm through the early stages, however, following a couple of other novicey jumps, he did appear to hit a bit of flat spot as the field approached the fifth fence from home.

Freddie began to ask Diamond Days for more after the next jump, and to our delight he responded and soon passed the struggling Misteroddsocks. As they came downhill, Diamond Days continued to rally, however, as they jumped the second to last fence there was still a few lengths to find. Following a big leap at the last, Diamond Days' stamina really began to kick in and he flew home up the nearside railing. 

Unfortunately, despite his courageous late effort, it was only enough for him to come home in fourth place dnd two lengths behind the winner, Getaway King. Overall, there were plenty of positives to take from Diamond Days' first experience over fences and there's no doubt he will have learned plenty to take into his next run.

WATCH: Freddie Gingell full of compliments for Diamond Days after his chase debut

Diamond Days' ten lucky Owners for the Day each took home a share of £311 in prize money for his fourth place finish, which took his total prize money up to £2,174. Those members were also offered the opportunity to attend Lingfield with Owners badges, granting them access to the parade ring, the opportunity to meet the Tizzard team amongst other raceday benefits.


Diamond Days' Owners for the Day alongside jockey, Freddie Gingell

Joe Tizzard confirmed to us this morning that Diamond Days was in good health after his latest performance and that the team at Venn Farm would be looking at finding his third race of the season in the not too distant future. 

Our next Owner for the Day competition will go live when we find out the exact race that Diamond Days will be targeted at, and you could be in attendance for Diamond Days' next race by entering! Check back soon on the Coral Racing Club for more details on Diamond Days' next engagement.