Zara Phillips to help teach Welsh National winner Monbeg Dude to jump properly A great deal rests on trainers taking responsibility for the type of horse they enter and it is now more essential than ever that horses are not entered merely because they are qualified. So, just to complete racing's first really good news story of 2013 - Monbeg Dude winning the Coral Welsh National for Michael Scudamore, the least well-known member of his illustrious racing family - was Sunday's announcement by the trainer that his heroic eight year-old will not be going anywhere near Aintree this year or any year until he sorts out his jumping. The temptation of a near £1 million pot is almost irresistible, but Scudamore insisted that none of the rugby-playing quartet of owners, James Simpson-Daniel, Mike Tindall, Nicky Robinson and himself, was getting carried away and that Monbeg Dude's first appointment away from the yard will be a fortnight's schooling holiday with Tindall's wife, the Olympic three-day-event silver medallist Zara Phillips. "The first thing dad [Peter] said to me after the race is that horses don't usually make that many mistakes and win, he must be good, go and get his jumping sorted," explained Scudamore, 28, who became the third generation of his family to win the Chepstow marathon after Paul Carberry had given Monbeg Dude one of the greatest waiting rides you are ever likely to see. "He'll have 10 days at home getting over the race then he'll go to Zara," said Scudamore. I think the boys assumed it would be cheaper than him going to [Olympic coach] Yogi Breisner! We are certainly not keen on Aintree this year although his next race could be the National trial at Haydock in February. He's already done far more than we could have asked for this season and we're very happy with our lot. He's still pretty much a novice. It was only his sixth race over fences. Monbeg Dude, who was bought by Tindall when 'tipsy" at an auction, made five or six mistakes during the course of the race and has his own style of negotiating a fence. Three times early on he dragged his hind legs through the birch and the only time Carberry asked him a serious question, at the last, he nearly came unstuck. Phillips will no doubt encourage him to get his hocks underneath him when jumping and teach him not to decommission his back-end once he is airborne. In contrast Saturday's half-length runner-up, Teaforthree, looks tailor-made for Aintree and terrific value at 20-1. He clearly goes on any ground he is likely to encounter at Aintree, jumps for fun and, as far as his National weight is concerned, getting beaten on Saturday could be a blessing in disguise. "I was gutted he got beat," said trainer Rebecca Curtis. He was so close. I don't think it helped taking out the two fences down the back because jumping is so much his strong point. The owners are keen to give him a Gold Cup entry on Tuesday, but I'd prefer to give him a run somewhere a month before Aintree. He's a big type of horse and you wouldn't want to go there after too long a break.