PUNCHESTOWN GOLD CUP

It’s rare these days to get two Cheltenham Gold Cup winners in the one race but Punchestown got both Sizing John and Coneygree for their Gold Cup. Throw in Djakadam, a dual Grade 1 winner and in the first four in three Gold Cups, and we had a race to savour on paper. It lived up to the expectation with these three taking the last fence almost together. The result was the one most people wanted, as the Gold Cup winner Sizing John rallied to raise the roof and make it three Gold Cup wins in 10 weeks.