[b]DONCASTER
January 12th 2011
Good to Soft
INTRODUCTION[/b]
Who would be in your top ten staying chasers that never won the Gold Cup? Mine would be:
10. Brown Chamberlain (electric in RSA, still cannot believe never made the step up)
9. Lanzarote (my first Gold Cup and gutted that the best horse around and only a novice at the time fatally fell)
8. Pendil (legendary and before my time)
7. Ten Plus(carried 11-10 to win The Manderin, fatal fall in Gold Cup when going strongly 3 out in Dessies GC I still think he would have been hard to haul in)
6. Florida Pearl (Irish high class perennial who always ran well but could not quite do it in the Cheltenham Gold Cup)
5. Tied Cottage (I backed her when she fell at the last when ahead of Alverton, then when...