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Lovely tributes to this King of the turf who has enjoyed a long full life and given so much pleasure to all who shared in his successful career on the racetrack and cared for him through his retirement.
RIP Cool Dawn
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...What a fantastic career and active retirement as a hunter Cool Dawn had ! Although I’ve seen 32 Gold Cups live at Cheltenham I watched this one in 1997 at home, and was mesmerised by his front-running win. Coneygree and Native River more recently also led from start to finish, and their performances were equally breathtaking. Looks Like Trouble (2000) who is also having an enjoyable retirement with Richard Johnson, I believe, is now the senior Gold Cup winner, whilst Kicking King (2005), War of Attrition (2006), Denman (2008) and Long Run (2011) are also still alive, together with the last six winners (Bobs Worth, Lord Windermere, Coneygree, Don Cossack, Sizing John and Native River) The Gold Cup now has a great safety record, with no fatalities since poor Gloria Victis prematurely lost his life in the 2000 renewal. However the Grand Annual, which concludes Gold Cup day, needs to be replaced, as it has a terrible recent record of equine fatalities, and ends the wonderful festival on a very sour note. This year I had to leave before the last race, thank goodness. R.I.P. Cool Dawn; you’ve left us some great memories.
Very well said Robinhill…..
Since I’ve started following NH racing in 1992, there are just three horses I remember to have died in the GC: Cherrykino (a novice for Tim Forster in 1993), Monsieur Le Cure (in his 2nd season) and Gloria Victis (another novice in 2000).
In fact, if you look at the 3 proper Festival Chases like the Champion Chase, the Ryanair (ex-Cathcart) and the Gold Cup they are the most safest races at the entire meeting. Don’t know if we’ve had 5 fatalities altogether in the past 27 season…. The Arkle has also been a very safe race as well.
The handicaps, the amateur chase and the novice hurdles are the catastrophic ones statistically. Big fields, too much speed and very bad ground towards the end of the day.Rest in Peace Cool Dawn and it would be nice to know how Robert Alner is doing. I hope he is still alive, but as far as I know he must be paralyzed.
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