Once upon a time there was a horse whose job was to run as fast as he could. There was just one problem. Mad Moose didn’t always fancy running. It wasn’t a matter of ability – it’s just that most of the time, he didn’t really feel like it. When he was on form, he could do fantastically well; he won at Cheltenham in 2012 after being 40 lengths behind at one point, but after that win he seemed to have had enough of it all. At his next Cheltenham appearance he refused to race, which he did again at York in May this year:
In December at Sandown Park, he started the race; but by the time he got to the first jump, decided to pull himself up. What is there to say – he just wasn’t having a good day.
As Nick Bradley, speaking on behalf of the syndicate who own him, Middleham Park Racing, once said:
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