Talking Horses: Denman, one of racing's modern greats, dies aged 18


The 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, nicknamed ‘The Tank’, was renowned for his iron will to win

Denman, one of the great steeplechasers, has died.

Paul Nicholls has reported the terrible news this morning that Denman is no longer with us, having been “put to sleep painlessly” at the trainer’s Somerset yard on Tuesday. “We all agreed it was the right thing to do,” Nicholls said, “because but he had begun to go downhill in the past few days and we did not want to see him suffer.”

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