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Plans for Mag on hold after Hennessy mishap

Magnanimity in action over hurdlesMagnanimity in action over hurdles
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Plans for Magnanimity are up in the air after the eight-year-old's run in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.

Connections had hoped to run the Dessie Hughes-trained gelding at Cheltenham where he holds entries in the Ryanair Chase, sponsored by his owner Michael O'Leary of Gigginstown House Stud, and the Betfred Gold Cup.

However, everything is on hold after he made a bad mistake at the fourth-last fence which cost him any chance he had in Sunday's Grade One feature.

"Thank God he's sound. He made a bit of a mistake at the fifth last and then at the next he's done the splits at the back of it and that finished him," said Hughes.

"It's hard to go to Cheltenham now after that. I don't really know what we will do next. I'll leave it up to Michael O'Leary (owner) to see whether we go over there or not.

"It's a shame as he was travelling very sweet yesterday up to that point and we were happy with him. He made a really bad mistake and he was nearly on the ground.

"If the other fella (Roberto Goldback) could finish second I'd be convinced he'd have finished close to him if not in front of him."