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The most exuberant athletic chaser, his jumping was absolute joy to watch; it’s a shame that the only video records of hom are beaten hijacked in one Gold Cup and brought down in another. Although small, he carried over 12 stone to victory in the (then) Massy-Ferguson Gold Cup at Cheltenham. Are there no videos of his King George, Arkle victories? I think he even beat Tingle Creek over 2 miles at Sandown
Arguably Fred Winter’s best steeplechaser, and that’s saying something!
Raced in an era filled with fantastic horses and trainers.
There is YouTube film of him winning the Benson & Hedges Handicap ( now grade 1 Tingle Creek ) Chase at Sandown in 1972.
Great Horse. Should have won at least one Gold Cup.
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He was certainly the best chaser not to win the Gold Cup in the past 50 years as far as I am concerned,though Fred Winter had an even better one in the yard in the ill-fated Killiney,who was expected to win at least 3 Gold Cups,such was the regard he was held in,and the likes of Champion Hurdlers,Bula and Lanzarote, tried to win it,though at least Fred finally trained the winner in 1978 when Midnight Court won at a very generous price of 5/2,though he missed out with the temperamental Brown Chamberlin, and I was there in 1984, when he veered to the right over the last 2 fences costing him the ground that Burrough Hill Lad beat him by !
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