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- Updated: November 28, 2016
Lucy Wadham hopes to have Le Reve back from injury in time for him to contest the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown in April.
The eight-year-old is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after suffering a stress fracture to his neck following a multiple horse pile-up in a Grade Three at Cheltenham earlier this month.
After unseating Nico de Boinville, who was left nursing a broken arm, at the second fence, Le Reve continued to gallop on riderless before getting trapped between the wings of the 12th fence.
Although leader Shotgun Paddy cleared the gelding, Cogry, Midnight Prayer and Racing Pulse were all brought down in the resulting melee, which saw Le Reve carried over the fence by the charging field.
Wadham said: “It was horrific. He had a bone scan at the end of last week and he has a stress fracture to the base of his neck. It is not displaced so it should heal. He is on box rest.
“He unseated Nico with a bad jump and he got trodden on and Le Reve continued round the whole course.
“He came down the hill in front of the …
