Cheltenham Festival 2020: Colin Tizzard’s Native River OUT of Cheltenham Gold Cup after suffering tendon injury

NATIVE River is OUT of the Cheltenham Festival and likely the rest of the season.

Colin Tizzard’s stable star will miss the Gold Cup and the Grand National after suffering a tendon injury.

He triumphed under Richard Johnson in the 2018 Gold Cup and had been a 12-1 shot with a number of bookmakers for this season’s renewal.

The Tizzard team will now solely rely on Betfair Chase winner Lostintranslation who is a 7-1 chance.

Trainer Colin Tizzard’s son and assistant Joe, said: “Unfortunately we’ve had to scratch Native River from the Gold Cup this morning – he’s picked up a suspensory tendon injury, which means his season is over.”

More to follow…