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- Updated: November 22, 2016
Barters Hill has been ruled out for the season following the injury he suffered at Cheltenham earlier this month and has a “50-50” chance of returning to his absolute best, trainer Ben Pauling has revealed.
The popular six-year-old was pulled up sharply by David Bass after just seven fences of the Steel Plate And Sections Novices’ Chase when making his debut over the bigger obstacles.
Pauling’s stable star, whose only previous defeat came in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at last season’s Cheltenham Festival, was found to have slipped a tendon off a hock.
Explaining the injury in more detail, Pauling said: “When the tendon is stripped off the point of the hock, they don’t ever put it back where it was supposed to be as there …
