GOLD CUP WINNER KONDRAT DIES, 53

ADAM KONDRAT, the Polishborn, French-based jockey best known in Britain for winning the 1994 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Francois Doumentrained The Fellow, has died aged 53. Kondrat (right) rode The Fellow in four Gold Cups and the pair were twice beaten a short-head, by Garrison Savannah in 1991 and Cool Ground in 1992. Kondrat and The Fellow contested the King George VI Chase at Kempton five times, winning the race in 1991 and 1992. The Gold Cup near-misses led to criticism of Kondrat but eight-time champion jockey Peter Scudamore said: ‘I always felt the criticism was unfair and came from people who didn’t understand the French style of riding. Adam was a lovely guy. He used to stay with me during the Cheltenham Festival. The news is very sad.’

TELECASTER will miss Sunday’s Prix de L’Arc de

Triomphe after trainer Hughie Morrison was not happy with his work-out yesterday. Telecaster had been a 16-1 shot with the soft ground in Paris set to suit him after his heavy ground win in the Grand Prix de Deauville on his latest run. Britain’s only representatives in the Arc will now be John Gosden-trained duo Enable and Stradivarius.

THE BHA have agreed new protocols which allow jockeys to ride at the Arc meeting without the need to selfisolate on return. The programme which involves extra testing will enable Frankie Dettori and Ryan Moore to ride in France and also take part in Newmarket’s Future Champions’ meeting the following week and allow Jim Crowley to take up the Prix de L’Abbaye ride on Battaash.