P662 CEEFAX 2 664 Fri 28 Fur 22: \/88 O W INJU5ED HARDING OU, FO YEAR 1/2 Brian Harding's Gold Cup hopis have been ct5ell= dashed b= zhr niw2 zh2t hu will not bj allowed to rhde agpin ;/thl December, it was revealed on Friday. The 24-year-old, who had bjhn expratin£ to pattnjt Addington Boy, discovjyjd the news earlier this wiik. suffered a sji:uri after a fall and h1s been stood down for a yeps as a rru4nt. Harding has been sidelined since suffering a fractured skull at Newcastle on 16 December. TU5NER EXPLAINS LENO,HY LAY-OFF: 663 HardYng@2 MrMsl\gn Sedgjfld Miwd P662 CEEFAX 2 664 Fri 28 Feb 22:20/27 'l£3kj£3kf£3k U C OOLO HA$DING DISMAYED @ 2/2 Brian Harding will not bj allowed to retkrL to $hj saddle uFhil DaceIbet. Pi@jxplaiNeh: "WXjm hj told me that hj would be recommending I should have a year off. "I thought my fxacturi wps hjpfhnk will and I was fielin7 grand buv hk I had some sort of leg ttimou, whiqh they callih a see:uri, when was coNcussed. "I spoke to Dq MicXael means a year off. I think it was bad form that Tuesday was the first heard of it. I knew nouhink of it before." RJCHATDS HITS OUT AT $HE LAY-OFF 663 Football 302 CricSjt 340 Genital 380 HathjNn@* KrMsllg^ Sehgeflh Newb Rjvw