Vatour RIP

Vautour, sorry

Sad news indeed,.... Latest,THREE-TIME Cheltenham Festival winner Vautour has died after a freak accident at Willie Mullins' yard.

"He broke a foreleg and has had to be put down," his trainer told the Racing Post on Sunday evening. "It's very tough to take for all of us."

Mullins does not know exactly how the injury happened. He explained: "Vautour was out in a paddock with another of our horses, Shaneshill - the two of them go out to the same paddock most days.

"We don't know what exactly happened - it must have been a freak accident - but when one of the girls went out to feed the horses Vautour was found with a broken front leg and our vet had no option but to put him down.

Tough times for WPM with the Giggy horses going well for their new Trainers as well but if you want to know what real bad luck is look at Tylicki...

To true Punch, i see another mullins horse  Avant Tout  was put down after getting injuried yesterday.

Was my favourite horse in training at the moment,

I love those type that relentless gallop the opposition into the ground,

I get what your saying about Tylicki and its dreadful but it was a one off.

Mullins just seems to be going through one of those phases where if it can go wrong it will after having a miraculously lucky few years previously.

SAD DAY   FOR BOTH SUPERB HORSES VAUTOUR AND AVANT TOUT  AND THERE CONNECTIONS

My favourite horse since Kauto. Don't know what I'll do now I can't bang on about him winning the Gold Cup!

Just shows how tough a sport NH in particular is . A real star Vautour .

Not NH though kelly ,

Happened turned out in a paddock which probably half the  horses in ireland are during a dry sunny day from ponys to top coolmore stud horses.

Just a freak accident and it took the most exciting jumper in the world imo,

Terrible news especially for connections including the stable staff who looked after him. Cheltenham wont be the same without him after three great performances. Had my biggest ever win when he won the JLT. The sky was the limit and I believe he would have won the 2017 GC. But horses get serious injuries every day and we only hear about the good ones and just like Vautour they dont have to be jumping Beechers brook to get injured.

Another bad day on Sat for that syndicate , they lost Ask Vic too colic on sat night as well...

I see Douvan is fav with a couple of shops for the King george,