Paul Townend hails a “huge team effort” after Gaelic Warrior’s Gold Cup triumph<\/p>\n
“We were dealt a big blow with Galopin Des Champs coming out,” says the five-time Gold Cup winning jockey.<\/p>\n
“I was lucky enough I’d this lad coming along. Patrick was convinced he was the horse for the race. It’s hard luck on Patrick but he did a lot of work on this lad from the last day. It’s a huge team effort. I was just the fortunate one to be on his back today.”<\/p>\n
“I didn’t ever envisage being in front going as well, turning in, but I wasn’t going to slow him down any more than I did. It was just a matter of not falling off him up the straight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Townend hails a “huge team effort” after Gaelic Warrior’s Gold Cup triumph “We were dealt a big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151390,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-344519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cheltenham-festival","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}