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Panic Attack strikes once more
Western Daily Press
|December 01, 2025
ANIC Attack soothed Dan Skelton’s nerves with a superb success in the Coral Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Newbury.
> Panic Attack and jockey Tristan Durrell clear the last to win Newbury's Coral Gold Cup Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
(Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
After The New Lion’s fall in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle, spirits may have been low for the Alcester team, but Skelton had another arrow to fire further south as Tristan Durrell took the ride on the mare in one of the season’s top handicaps.
Panic Attack was returning to action quickly after victory in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham just over two weeks ago, and was also stepping up to the three-mile-two-furlong trip for the first time as a 16-1 chance.
This story is from the December 01, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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