Harry Fry rules out National Hunt Chase for RSA-bound American

Harry Fry reports American on course for the RSA Chase at Cheltenham next month, ground permitting.The seven-year-old was tremendously impressive in winning a Listed event at Warwick last month, beating Champers On Ice by four and a half lengths under Noel Fehily, backing up an Exeter win in November.Fry said: "American is good and we have said all along we are taking it a day at a time. He worked well on Saturday morning and we will keep working forward towards the RSA in all probability, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves."It needs to be slow enough ground to run, purely just because he is fragile. It was a good performance of jumping at Warwick and it was one of the best performances of jumping you will see, what he did down the back straight."American is a best-priced 12-1 chance for the RSA on March 14 while he was as low as 8-1 for the four-mile National Hunt Chase.