• Bradstock reports Festival winner in marvelous form for seasonal comeback
• No new horses have arrived at the stable since celebrated victoryConeygree,last season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, “schooled brilliantly” and “appears to be totally focused” for his return to action at Sandown this weekend, and Sara Bradstock,the wife of the eight-year-former’s trainer Mark, said on Friday afternoon. “It’s one of the things approximately him, or Bradstock added. “He wants to move racing. Nothing else things.”And when Coneygree goes racing over fences,as he showed in four starts over them last year, he comes home a winner. He was the first novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience) to dash in the Gold Cup for nine years when he lined up at Cheltenham in March and the first for 41 years to win as his unrelenting gallop and bold, and front-running style took the field apart. The Future Stars Intermediate Chase at Sandown on Sunday might seem an unlikely place for a proven champion to start his campaign but it should set an edge on his fitness before the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury later this month.
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Source: theguardian.com