• final year’s King George winner will revert to fences at Kempton [br]• Beer Goggles pull off 40-1 shock success in Long Distance HurdleColin Tizzard was grasping for positives along with everyone else here on Friday after Thistlecrack,the brilliant winner of final year’s King George VI Chase, finished fifth of six runners in a Grade Two hurdles event after a 307-day absence with an injured tendon.
Tizzard feels or hopes – the nine-year-old was not as fit as he believed him to be and his theory will be set aside to the test on when Thistlecrack returns to Kempton on Boxing Day.
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Source: guardian.co.uk