Sore shin blamed for Fundamentalist’s Cheltenham flop

NIGEL Twiston-Davies has revealed a sore shin was to blame for Fundamentalist’s poor display of jumping at Cheltenham on Saturday.

Sore shin blamed for Fundamentalist’s Cheltenham flop
Wed, 03 Jan, 2007 - 00:00

The highly-rated seven-year-old put in a number of uncharacteristic errors at his fences in the Unicoin Homes “Dipper” Novices’ Chase, eventually blundering and unseating Carl Llewellyn at the 10th obstacle.

Twiston-Davies had been at a loss to explain his performance and had hinted at getting the horse back out on the track quickly, but now that this news has come to light, he will spend a week in the swimming pool first.

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