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- Updated: October 24, 2016
Noel Meade has been dealt a blow with the news smart chaser Apache Stronghold will miss the whole season after having a tendon fired.
A top-class novice chaser in the 2014-15 season, he won the Flogas Novice Chase at Leopardstown and was second in three other Grade Ones over fences, including in the JLT at Cheltenham.
A tendon injury kept him off the track for the whole of last season and the same problem will see him sidelined for the upcoming campaign, too.
“Apache had a little problem with a suspensory last year,” said Meade.
“We kept …
