SNOW LEOPARDESS Charlie Longsdon


March of the following year and a raid of Auteuil. It was in the horsebox returning her from Paris


that Snow Leopardess suffered a freak leg injury that derailed her career and threatened to end it altogether. She spent over two years in rehabilitation, sea swimming in Ireland and recuperating with William Fox-Pitt and his wife, ITV Racing’s Alice Plunkett, at their training centre in Dorset. But a lethargy in her healing prompted the move to mate Snow Leopardess with 2006 Derby hero Sir


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Percy. A filly foal arrived in the spring of 2019. Aſter weaning came the return to a light


training regimen at Longsdon’s Hull Farm stable in Chipping Norton. Absent for 794 days, she raced twice over


hurdles either side of Christmas before being sidelined for another nine months. “We always thought she’d love fences,” recalls


Longsdon, whose stable star made the frame in all bar one of her outings as a novice chaser last season, winning at Haydock and running fourth in


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