War of Attrition on Gold Cup trail

WAR OF ATTRITION, even if his trainer Mouse Morris refuses to commit him to the race, remained firmly on the Gold Cup trail with a solid half a length defeat of Rathgar Beau in the Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Cashmans introduced the six-year-old into their Gold Cup betting at 14-1, but Paddy Power (10-1) and Boylesports (8-1) are much tighter.

War Of Attrition's narrow defeat of Rathgar Beau, who was conceding 4lbs, won't have impressed everybody, but you ignore him at your peril.