Best Mate is to have a long holiday following his victory in the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup, trainer Henrietta Knight has revealed.
"He's very very well - top of the world. He's going on holiday until next autumn," the English trainer said today.
Knight hinted that the seven-year-old may be given a similar campaign to this season when he eventually starts the countdown to defending his crown.
"He might go back to the Haldon Gold Cup again and start at shorter distances and work up again. He can go any distance this horse.
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"If you have got a horse that is so relaxed it can just switch itself off and keep going and then sprint, it doesn't make any difference what the distance is," she said.
Best Mate has had four races this season.
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