Gold Cup Win has Ruined Denman ; Trainer Nicholls Admits He has No Idea How Star Will Run [Eire Region]

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FEW sporting champions are sent out to defend their titles with more question-marks against them than the mighty chaser Denman. A year ago at Cheltenham, he looked invincible as he pounded his famous stable companion -- and the Gold Cup holder -- Kauto Star into submission and champion trainer Paul Nicholls delivered an astonishing 1-2-3.

Yet as the Gold Cup rematch beckons this Friday, Nicholls readily concedes that Denman may never again reach the same level of performance after a troubled season during which he needed life- threatening treatment for an irregular heartbeat.

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Gold Cup Win has Ruined Denman ; Trainer Nicholls Admits He has No Idea How Star Will Run [Eire Region]

'Denman was awesome in victory 12 months ago, but he is one of those horses who give everything and more until they have nothing left,' said Nicholls. 'That's why I have this longheld suspicion that it left a permanent ...

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