Sizing John became a dramatic late withdrawal from next week’s Cheltenham Gold Cup when last year’s winner of the prestigious race was found to have a pelvic injury. “With a heavy heart,” Harrington announced that her vet had found “a hairline non-displaced fracture” in Sizing John’s pelvis. Apple’s Jade shortens for Mares’ Hurdle after Ricci retires Vroum Vroum Mag Read moreHarrington said two weeks’ box rest would be necessary and added that Sizing John would then be “off on his holidays”. He becomes the third consecutive Gold Cup winner who was then unfit to line up the following year, following Coneygree and Don Cossack. Power is now expected to ride Our Duke, displacing Noel Fehily, who might end up on one of JP McManus’s four Gold Cup entrants.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2018 19:23 UTC