Attrition equals Best Mate rating of 170

WAR OF ATTRITION has earned an official rating of 170 with his impressive victory in last Friday’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Attrition equals Best Mate rating of 170
Tue, 21 Mar, 2006 - 00:00
Robert Pratt

The figure puts Mouse Morris’s seven-year-old on the same mark as Best Mate after he won the first of his three blue ribands in 2002.

War Of Attrition put up a bold-jumping display to beat Hedgehunter by two and a half lengths with another seven back to Forget The Past and L’Ami who was a close fourth.

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