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It was a Gold Cup run at a very gentle pace. I'm sure he'd have been pulled up if they'd gone hell for leather up front.


Kauto was put under the sort of pressure he couldn't handle on that course on stamina sapping ground. That led to jumping errors, mistakes that were the result of Denman taking him out of his comfort zone.


Lastly, and DJ has already covered this, In that 2008 renewal Denman jumped the third last, Sam looked behind him, saw Ruby at it on Kauto and got lost in the moment and went for it way before he needed to. In contrast check out Barry Geraghty on Finian's Rainbow in the Arkle. He looked behind him after jumping the third last, saw all his rivals pushing away but kept hold of the horse. Now I know he didn't win the race but that was the way Thomas should have ridded Denman once it was clear he was going beat of all. If he'd taken that course of action I'm certain he'd have won by a wider margin.


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