Folkestone shock for Free Gift

FREE GIFT has been pushed out to 8-1 for the Christie’s Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival following a surprise defeat at Folkestone yesterday.

Folkestone shock for Free Gift
Wed, 16 Feb, 2005 - 00:00
Anita Chambers

The Sally Alner-trained seven-year-old was sent off the 1-2 favourite for the R. E. Sassoon Memorial Hunters’ Chase after winning eight successive races, seven in point-to-points and one in a hunter chase last May.

However, Free Gift never really looked like fighting back after being headed two fences from home and he was eventually beaten six lengths by Paddy For Paddy.

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