Lexus return for Magnanimity Magnanimity is back in training with Dessie Hughes and a possible runner in the Lexus Chase at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival after recovering well from a potentially serious leg injury. A Grade 2 winning hurdler and chaser, the seven year-old took well to fences last year when just denied by Bostons Angel in the Dr P J Moriarty Novice Chase at Leopardstown before a very creditable run in the RSA Chase. Beaten only just over a length at Cheltenham, again behind Bostons Angel, that effort was all the more meritorious as it emerged afterwards that the son of Winged Love had fractured a joint. “He's a hell of a horse,” said Hughes at a press open day in his Osborne Lodge yard on the Curragh this morning. “He fractured a joint at Cheltenham which needed four screws, and he had four months box rest. But he's come back a more professional horse, and the plan is to start him off in the Lexus. He could be a Gold Cup horse.” Davy Russell rode Magnanimity in a light gallop this morning with 16 other stablemates, including juvenile hurdler Minsk and old favourites Black Apalachi and Vic Venturi, also taking part in the same lot.
