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Has anyone heard any more news about him since his fall yesterday. I have always liked him and was lucky enough to be at Cheltenham the year he won the Gold Cup and although it was nice to see him return from the tendon injury recently he is obviously no way near his best any more and I really hope that connections decide to retire him as it would be awful if he really hurt himself again or worse on the racecourse.
He got up and was fine apparently.
He just seemed to keen.
I only saw the camera from behind the jump and he just seemed to leave too much room between take off and the fence and came down as a result.
An article on the Racing Post site… Tom Taaffe’s ridden him and is glad to report no harm done.
put him in a field and let him retire fit and healthy.
I agree.
What’s the use in flogging a "dead horse", so to speak.
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if he doesn’t like it – let him join a hunt. I can see no point in running him in these races any more….
I’d judge him more on the next performance of some measurable substance that he puts in. To my mind he departed too early on Saturday to gauge either his current wellbeing or enthusiasm, other than to say he hadn’t appeared to be trying to jam on the brakes, refuse to put his best foot forward, etc up to that point.
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