Medinas delivers Distance upset More Of That's unbeaten record went up in smoke as Medinas caused a bit of an upset in the bet365 Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury. With Lac Fontana an absentee, Jonjo O'Neill's Ladbrokes World Hurdle winner was the 4-7 favourite to extend his winning run to six races, but he was off the bridle a long way from home and finished a weary horse in third place. Cole Harden attempted to make it a proper stamina test and went well in front for most of the race, having Tony McCoy in trouble approaching the third-last, and after More Of That was readily brushed aside by Medinas, the eventual winner took charge after the final flight and maintained an honest gallop to score by seven lengths. Medinas was going one place better than last year for the Alan King team. Winning rider Richard Johnson said: "We knew (Cole Harden) would go off and make the running. We thought, realistically, the most sensible thing to do was to bide our time. He's stayed and come through the ground." McCoy said of More Of That: "He got tired. It was very testing ground. It's very hard work. He's a big, gross horse. It's lucky he started off at a lower level and kept on improving." Owner JP McManus scotched any notion of More Of That going over fences this term. He said: "We're disappointed, it goes without saying. You find out everything when he goes to the racecourse. They went a good gallop, but the horse that led beat us well anyway. We'll stick to hurdles this season."
