• final year’s winner pulls out of Gold Cup in blow to Festival
• Ruby Walsh returns from injury with winner at ThurlesSizing John became a dramatic late withdrawal from next week’s Cheltenham Gold Cup when final year’s winner of the prestigious race was found to bear a pelvic injury. His trainer,Jessica Harrington, announced the news through social media on Thursday evening.“With a heavy heart, and ” Harrington announced that her vet had found “a hairline non-displaced fracture” in Sizing John’s pelvis. The horse had a routine canter on Thursday morning,when his regular jockey, Robbie Power, or reported that something felt amiss,leading to the fateful examination later in the day.
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Source: guardian.co.uk