Unlucky Roberto Goldback may wait for Aintree

I didn’t get to see Roberto Goldback just getting chinned on the line in the Kinloch Brae in Thurles on Thursday as I was skiing at the time and it’s probably just as well because from what I heard, he was terribly unlucky.

From what I have been told, it was unfortunate that the last fence wouldn’t be jumped because of the injury to Davy Russell when Mossbank fell on the first circuit. That meant Roberto was in front a long time on the flat and he might have stumbled a bit too, allowing Follow The Plan to get up by a neck.

I will watch a tape of the race when I return to Ireland next week but he obviously ran very well and you’d have to be happy with that. He’s been second to The Nightingale, third in the Durkan and second again now in another Grade 2 so you’d just have to think that he’ll win a good one at some stage.