One of the big favourites on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival was involved in a dramatic exit when jinking around the last hurdle, crashed into the wing and gave his rider Mark Walsh a nasty fall.
Walsh was riding the JP McManus-owned Corbetts Cross and had steered the 9-4 favourite into a position to challenge eventual winner Stay Away Fay approaching the final flight of the £135,000 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.
But when they reached the hurdle Corbetts Cross ducked right, where there is a gap between the wing and the standside rail, and smashed through the plastic wing, galloping riderless through the winning line.
