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Same as that - when then colleagues raved about her, I'd sarcastically reply: "Yeah, it takes a great horse to beat Cima three parts of a length getting 7lb - I can only think of about ten other horses in training right now (never mind the past) that could do it."

Tough, game, talented, mare but the Champion Hurdle/Cheltenham Gold Cup heroine wins neither without the allowance and she narrowly beat one of the worst-ever Champion Hurdle runners up in one and a perennial Cheltenham Gold Cup non-stayer in the other.

[QUOTE="Ian_Davies, post: 2698294, member: 66646"] Same as that - when then colleagues raved about her, I'd sarcastically reply: "Yeah, it takes a great horse to beat Cima three parts of a length getting 7lb - I can only think of about ten other horses in training right now (never mind the past) that could do it." Tough, game, talented, mare but the Champion Hurdle/Cheltenham Gold Cup heroine wins neither without the allowance and she narrowly beat one of the worst-ever Champion Hurdle runners up in one and a perennial Cheltenham Gold Cup non-stayer in the other. [/QUOTE]

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