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Joe Tizzard is confident last season's disappointing campaign at Venn Farm can be left in the past, with a wealth of untapped equine potential in the wings and Brendan Powell joining a team of top riders at the yard's disposal.
Powell is to be given "plenty of rides" as he, alongside Harry Cobden and Jonjo O'Neill Jnr, will share the majority of jockey duties for the Dorset stable. Robbie Power had teamed up with the yard but returned to Ireland midway through last season.
The Tizzard stable endured its worst season in five years, dipping from 61 winners to 37 last term, but this campaign has started promisingly notably with Storm Home taking the valuable Summer Cup under Powell at Uttoxeter in July.
Tizzard, who got married over the summer, is to officially take the license from father Colin at the end of October and is expecting a big campaign.
Tizzard added of Powell, who has ridden seven of the stable's ten winners this season and had a succession of big wins for the yard between 2013 and 2015: "Brendan rode for us last season and he will come in for plenty of rides – the owners are enjoying what they're seeing with him.
Although the yard went without a winner at the Cheltenham Festival, novice chasers Eldorado Allen, Fiddlerontheroof and The Big Breakaway posted solid placed efforts.
Of their targets, he added: "Fiddlerontheroof and The Big Breakaway can run in intermediate chases, so The Big Breakaway might go to one at Newton Abbot on October 10 and Fiddlerontheroof to Carlisle for the Colin Parker. Then the Ladbrokes Trophy or Paddy Power are races for them. Eldorado Allen could start in the Haldon Gold Cup.