Top old horse, should have bowed out last year but glad he's out in one piece.
Had a great career and will be remembered fondly. Whether he'd have won or not you don't know, and even though I wasn't on him that day, you can't help but feel sorry for him and connections coming down 3 out that day in the Gold Cup.
I actually feel quite sad typing this, he was a stalwart of the NH season.
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We are sad to announce Our Duke died this morning following his usual morning exercise. He suffered a massive heart attack. He is a great loss to the Cooper family & our team.
Feck sake
They got some great days out of him at least
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
Brutal news. Horse still had a big future. RIP.
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SlimChance, March 2018
Awful news .RIP
So sad to hear this. RIP
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What awful news,
RIP Our Duke and thoughts with the Harringtons and his connections
What horrible news about Our Duke - the sky looked the limit after the Irish National - such a gorgeous old fashioned chasing type .
Sorry not to see Cue Card at Sundown . I am far from sure that it is fair to say he should have retired last year . Had Waiting Patiently not run and Cue Card had thrashed Frodon and Top Notch a different view might have been taken. The Cue Card of the Ascot Chase would have won the Ryanair IMO . The thrashing of Balko des Flos at Aintree suggests it was a very weak affair and that UDS either did not get home or was not at this best .
Dame Rose after finishing fourth today at Cheltenham.
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that's a bit of a leap, you surely can't take Aintree as the true running of balko des flos
surely just a textbook case of a horse still feeling effects of chelt
he finished 13 lengths behind 153 rated Sizing Granite
balko des flos was finishing in same territory as solid 160 horses at leopardstown over christmas
not saying ryanair was a great race - it clearly wasnt - but there's no way aintree showed the true balko des flos and i would be 100 percent sure his future runs wil lprove that point
They're doing an post mortem to see if it was heat exhaustion that caused the heart attack. It's why the 3;50 race was cancelled. Feel so sorry for her connections.
NewApproach (20th April 2018)
Glencairn View in the Scottish National. A big blow to the Tony Mullins yard.
Our Dansant four year old half sister to Apache Gold smashed a pastern and had to be put to sleep.
A major blow to her breeder and to trainer Tom Hogan who had turned her inside out in six months.
A Finsceal Fior two year old filly is the last apache of this line , has been broken in and will be ready to go on once she gets some May grass, if we get any !
Sorry to read that edgt- it’s a tough old game sometimes
Best of luck with the other
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