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Tina Cook and David Cricket win RoR eventing championship at Gatcombe

David Cricket and Tina Cook win RoR/NTF Eventing Championship at Gatcombe Park
David Cricket and Tina Cook at Gatcombe ParkCredit: Lotte Simons

Tina Cook and David Cricket, a seven-year-old son of popular chaser Lady Cricket, won the RoR Retrained Racehorse Eventing Championship at Gatcombe Park on Sunday.

Since retiring from a brief racing career at the close of 2016, after racing three times without a win for trainer Alan King, David Cricket has been retrained for a second career as an event horse.

Cook and David Cricket led the 19-horse class from the dressage phase, jumped a double clear in the showjumping and cross-country on Saturday, before incurring just four additional penalty points when knocking down one pole in Sunday's second showjumping round to finish on 32.5 penalties, 0.2 penalties ahead of Highland Patriot.

"He could go all the way," said Cook, a three-time Olympic medallist. "He's got a fantastic temperament and, touch wood, is a sound little horse. He's great to work with."

After winning the National Trainers Federation-sponsored event, Cook and the winning owners were presented with a cheque for £2,000 by Princess Anne, RoR chairman Paul Roy and trainer Richard Phillips.


Miss Magoo returns from ban on Monday

Miss Magoo will make her first start for 968 days in the second division of the 6f handicap (3.35) at Naas on Monday.

The seven-year-old mare is one of four horses owned by Patrick Coffey who were found to be trained at his own unlicensed premises despite being listed as in training with James Coyle.

In October 2017, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referrals committee found that Coffey, rather than Coyle, was the instigator of what had occurred and that Coffey, who declined to attend the hearing to offer an explanation for the different breaches of the rules, had misled the public.

The committee imposed a two-year disqualification on Coffey and banned the four horses involved for 12 months with effect from October 5.

Coyle had his restricted licence suspended for 12 months but the committee decided the ban would not come into effect provided there are no further breaches of the relevant rules in the next two years.

Miss Magoo is the first of the four horses to reappear and will have her first start for new trainer Keith Clarke, with Conor Hoban booked to ride.


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