article_snippet.sent: While the gelding, whose participation in the race for owner Trevor Hemmings had been in doubt after his disappointing sixth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last month, also provided a massive change of National luck for his Lambourn trainer Oliver Sherwood.
article_snippet.sent: None of his four previous runners in the race for owner Trevor Hemmings had managed to complete the course and two of None of his four previous runners in the race
article_snippet.sent: Monbeg Dude running a massive race in third for Monbeg Dude trainer Michael Scudamore and Monbeg Dude trio of former international rugby-playing owners Mike Tindall, James Simpson- Daniel and Nicky Robinson.
article_snippet.sent: In fourth for the second year running was Fergal O’Brien’s Alvarado, whose finishing position meant jockey Paul Moloney has remarkably been placed seven times in the race for owner Trevor Hemmings.
article_snippet.sent: Last year I had to work hard at certain points of the race for owner Trevor Hemmings
article_snippet.sent: Resurgent trainer Sherwood, whose wife Tarnya rode Numerate and pulled up in the 1989 race, added:
article_snippet.sent: I thought that the race for owner Trevor Hemmings was a year too soon and Trevor knows that.
article_snippet.sent: Nineteen of the 39 starters finished the race for owner Trevor Hemmings and all horses emerged unscathed, although Balthazar King was still under veterinary observation last night after a heavy fall at the first Canal Turn which caused the fence to be bypassed by the field on the second circuit.
article_snippet.sent: If there was an unlucky horse in the race it had to be The Druids Nephew, who was bowling along powerfully in the lead under Aidan Coleman when falling at the 26th fence.
article_snippet.sent: By then the writing was on the wall for well-backed 8-1 shot Rocky Creek, who faded into 17th, and last year’s winner Pineau de Re, this time ridden to 12th place by Daryl Jacob.
highlights_snippet.sent: Saint Are finished second while Monbeg Dude made up the top three .
  