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From The Guardian
"There will surely be no Gold Cup to crown the career of Cue Card now. While he has been as tough and durable as any top-class steeplechaser, he will be 12 by the time next March comes around and modern Gold Cups simply do not fall to horses of that age. The hard fact for his many followers to confront is Cue Card already looked beaten before he exited this race, in sharp contrast to the situation 12 months before, when he seemed to have the prize within his grasp. In the words of his trainer, Colin Tizzard: “Last year, he’d just joined in, he was tanking along. This year, he was flat out and dived at it.” Paddy Brennan, the jockey who took so much of the blame on himself for what happened a year ago, wanted to take time to collect himself before talking about this repeat. He was fit to take his one remaining ride an hour later. Without being asked, Tizzard dismissed any suggestion Brennan had contributed to Cue Card’s fall. “There’s no fault,” he said. “Last time, he was upset because he thought perhaps he’d got it wrong. He did nothing wrong at all.” Cue Card’s owner, Jean Bishop, had discussed the possibility of retiring the horse, had he won here. He has certainly turned in a long shift at racing’s highest level, though a healthy steeplechaser would often continue to the age of 12. Tizzard reported the horse unhurt by his tumble and hopes Cue Card may be able to go to Aintree next month for the Betfred Bowl, which he won easily last year. “We’ll see how he comes out of it but I’m sure he’ll go to Aintree. The Irish won’t hardly come and half of these won’t be there. And see what happens after that. He was a length and a half behind the winner, wasn’t he? So no one knows what was going to happen. But then he dived at it.” Tizzard’s other runner, Native River, belied fears about poor stable form to keep on into third place after helping to force the pace." |