• ‘It’s my first Cheltenham winner for 14 years,’ says trainer
Oliver Sherwood’s low-profile Lambourn stable now houses the third-favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, his Many Clouds having proved that he is still improving by landing the Betbright Cup here on Saturday, but the trainer’s main reaction was relief at having found his way back to this particular winner’s enclosure. Just one reflection of the way Sherwood’s fortunes have fallen from their early-90s peak is that his last success at this track was with Hulysse Royal in a handicap hurdle in November 2000.
“Personally, it’s a right monkey off my back, it’s my first Cheltenham winner for 14 years,” Sherwood said, and he kept repeating the phrase “monkey off my back” at intervals of three or four sentences, so there was no danger of missing the significance of this occasion for the 59-year-old.
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