Lee hoping Sole Pretender can bounce back Trainer Norman Lee is hoping his stable star Sole Pretender will bounce back following a disappointing run at the Galway festival last month. Successful at Grade 3 level over hurdles, the nine-time winner started favourite for a Grade 3 novice chase at Galway but trailed in finishing second-last of the seven runners in the 2m2f contest. Lee reports “he burst a blood vessel in Galway which was very disappointing. I gave him three weeks off and he's coming back in on Friday. "I have to try and get him right. We never had a horse burst a blood vessel before in thirteen years of training and I just don't know where it came from, but please God he'll come back in one piece. "We just haven't been lucky with him in Galway, so we'll stick to more level tracks with him and he might go to Roscommon for a Grade 3 chase in five or six weeks' time."
