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The Paddy Power Gold Cup is a Premier Handicap National Hunt chase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 4½ furlongs (2 miles 4 furlongs and 44 yards, or 4,064 metres), and during its running there are sixteen fences to be jumped.
Fortria (foaled 1952) was an Irish National Hunt horse best known as the first dual winner of the Champion Chase and winner of the inaugural Mackeson Gold Cup.Although very successful over two miles, he also excelled at longer distances, and won the 1961 Irish Grand National and finished second in the 1962 and 1963 Cheltenham Gold Cups.
Mackeson Gold Cup Gloucestershire Hurdle ... was a National Hunt jockey and trainer who was the first jockey to ride 1,000 winners and Champion Jockey three years in ...
He followed this victory up by winning the Mackeson Gold Cup, despite carrying top weight of 12 stone 7 pounds. In the King George VI Chase, he was well clear of the field when he started to slow, allowing Arkle to gain on him. Dunkirk crashed through a fence while Arkle was trying to match strides with him.
Between 1954 and 1967, Ryan Price was the Champion National Hunt trainer five times. [4] Among his other wins, Price trained the winner of the 1955, 1959, and 1961 Champion Hurdle, [5] the 1959 and 1966 Whitbread Gold Cup, [6] the 1967 Mackeson Gold Cup [7] and Champion Novices' Chase, [8] the 1971 Supreme Novices' Hurdle, [9] and the 1962 & 1973 Triumph Hurdle.
Other notable winners: Royal Sanction (1966 Imperial Cup), ... (1983 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup), Half Free (1984 Mackeson Gold Cup, 1985 Mackeson Gold Cup), ...
Gay Trip was a racehorse noted for winning the 1970 Grand National.. Gay Trip was a small bay gelding owned by Tony Chambers and trained by Fred Rimell.Formerly a flat racing horse, Gay Trip was switched to National Hunt racing as a five-year-old and won the Mackeson Gold Cup in 1969.
On 12 March 1992 Llewellyn again had a winner at the Cheltenham Festival on Tipping Tim in the Ritz Club National Hunt Handicap Chase and later going on to win the 1992 Grand National on Party Politics and on 14 November 1992, during the Open Meeting, he won the Mackeson Gold Cup Handicap Chase again on Tipping Tim. [1] [2] [3] [4]