Envoi Allen collapsed and died after finishing ninth in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup.<\/p>\n
The 12-year-old was having the final start of his glittering career in the Cheltenham Festival highlight, with owners Cheveley Park Stud having confirmed he would retire following his run in the blue riband \u2013 his eighth appearance in all at the Festival.<\/p>\n
Envoi Allen won 10 Grade Ones in total, having started with Gordon Elliott before moving to Henry de Bromhead, most recently becoming the first horse to win Down Royal\u2019s Champion Chase on three occasions.<\/p>\n
Cheveley Park Stud director Richard Thompson said: \u201cWe didn\u2019t see it. The vets OK-ed them all (after the race), and Darragh (O\u2019Keeffe, jockey) said he was pricking his ears, then he came up and went over as he was coming out of the chute.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had just retired, and he\u2019s just gone in a minute or two.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s finished the race, the vets have had a look, he\u2019s walked on, and he\u2019s gone down before the chute.\u201d<\/p>\n
Envoi Allen had won three times at the Festival, landing the 2019 Champion Bumper, the 2020 Ballymore Novices\u2019 Hurdle, now known as the Turners, and the 2023 Ryanair Chase, as well as placing on a further three occasions.<\/p>\n
Thompson said: \u201cHe was such an unbelievable horse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was not the ending we wanted but unfortunately, that is what has happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been an incredible servant, wonderful over the years, and this is such a sad way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Envoi Allen collapsed and died after finishing ninth in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup. The 12-year-old was having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-345343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345343","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=345343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}