Twiston Shout

FOR about three minutes yesterday afternoon, Paul Barber was sure he had won another Gold Cup.

When Kauto Star almost unseated Ruby Walsh at the eighth fence, Denman’s owner knew that the duel for which the sporting world had waited so long was not going to materialise.

What had been flagged as a two-horse race had seemingly become a one-horse race. Barber was still thinking along those lines when his ten-year old was about to turn for home. Then his heart sank.