Looking for change of luck after rotten spell of bad fortune
David Jennings catches up with last year's Gold Cup-winning hero
If you're squeamish and have a tendency to turn queasy, look away now. You can rejoin us again in a few paragraphs for the Cheltenham chat.
Early May 2016: operation to have screws removed from his right leg that were inserted after a fall from Clarcam in the Fred Winter in 2014, a break that Irish Turf Club medical officer Dr Adrian McGoldrick describes as the worst lower-limb fracture he had ever seen. Four weeks out.
July 28, 2016: Tiger Roll meets the first of the two famous fences in the dip at Galway all wrong in a 2m2f novice chase. A valiant attempt to keep the partnership intact ends with him crashing into the take-off board of the final fence. Breathing becomes a chore as medics wonder whether there is severe internal damage. It turns out to be a collapsed lung and a laceration of the liver. Six weeks out.
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- Expert jury: which horse could emerge from Saturday as a potential Cheltenham Festival winner?
- WATCH: join Johnny Dineen and David Jennings for episode five of Upping The Ante featuring a selection for the Brown Advisory
- Who do you fancy for the Champion Chase after the weekend wins of Jonbon and Energumene?
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