The beast rolls!
I hope the rest of you got a chance to see the Cheltenham Gold Cup because it was an incredible exhibition of relentless gallopping and perfect fencing by Denman. He was a tired horse coming up the hill to the wire, but he had already run the others into the ground, including the defending champion Kauto Star. Paul Nicholls trained the first three home, the first such training feat since Michael Dickinson (aka the 'mad genius') trained the first FIVE home in the Gold Cup 25 years ago.
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