Beef or Salmon on course for Gold Cup

04/03/2005 - 13:37:38
Beef Or Salmon, Ireland’s leading totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup contender, is bang on course for the blue riband after scoping clean this morning.

Michael Hourigan’s charge disappointed when a remote second to Rule Supreme in the Irish Hennessy last month, after which he was found to be suffering from an upper respiratory tract infection.

However, the nine-year-old has been pleasing his trainer in recent days and after giving him a spin at Limerick today, Hourigan said: “He worked well and scoped clean afterwards – which was a great relief.

“One of my lads rode him and he will do a bit more next week. All we need now is to keep him sound and hope that he scopes clean over the next two weeks.

“I’d say that he is as well now as he has been all year.”