article_snippet: Trainer Mark Bradstock will certainly be hoping that is the case when Coneygree bids to become the first novice to win the £550,000 Betfred Gold Cup since Captain Christy in 1974.
article_snippet: Talk of such lofty ambition started after Trainer Mark Bradstock and Trainer Mark Bradstock assistant trainer wife, Sara, saw Coneygree stroll home by 40 lengths in the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day in only his second steeplechase.
article_snippet: Coneygree is running to be the first novice to win the £550,000 Betfred Gold Cup since Captain Christy in 1974 .
article_snippet: Proof the performance was not a fluke came when Coneygree slammed Hennessy Gold Cup runner-up Houblon Des Obeaux by seven lengths in Newbury’s Denman Chase on February 7.
article_snippet: Bradstock, who spent 12 years as assistant to legendary trainer Fulke Walwyn, said: ‘Coneygree’s strength is an incredibly high cruising speed and being able to efficiently jump at that speed, when most ca
article_snippet: Coneygree won the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day in just Coneygree second steeplechase .
highlights_snippet: Coneygree could be the first novice to win the Gold Cup since 1974 .
  
highlights_snippet: Coneygree takes on the £550,000 race at 3.20pm on Friday at Cheltenham .