Skelton’s mount found to have impeded Kitty’s LightBryony Frost takes double with Frodon and GreaneteenThe best season of Harry Skelton’s career ended with a moment to forget as the new champion jockey over jumps lost the last big race of the campaign in the stewards’ room after a dramatic conclusion to the Bet365 Gold Cup.
Enrilo, Skelton’s mount in the £115,000 contest, had already survived a bad blunder at the second-last when he started to hang badly to his left on the uphill climb to the post. Kitty’s Light, who was coming with a strong run on the stands’ side under Jack Tudor, was seriously impeded, and crossed the line in third, a short-head behind Alan King’s Potterman who was three-quarters of a length behind Enrilo.