Planet Of Sound wins Guinness Gold Cup at Punchestown as Denman flops

• Paul Nicholls attributes failure to right-handed track • War Of Attrition to be retired after finishing second The Guinness Gold Cup winner is making his way back to Somerset but not to the stable that many expected before the feature event at the Punchestown Festival. Denman, the 2008 Gold Cup winner, started favourite for the race at 11-8 but Paul Nicholls’ chaser proved horribly unsuited by the right-handed track and could finish only fourth as Planet Of Sound took the ¤135,000 (£117,000) prize for his neighbour Philip Hobbs.

See the article here