Horses that have won 3 different Cheltenham Festival races?

Bobs Worth - Bartlett, RSA, Gold Cup

Forgive N Forget thwarted by John Francome - greatest jockey .. ?

Flyingbolt - almost made it 4 in 3 years.

Well done sc1883. Prize in the post.

How the feck did I not think of Flyingbolt?

Champagne fever came pretty close

Montelado won consecutive races at the festival

Indeed TS. I preferred it when the bumper was the last race of the meeting.

Buck house won supreme and queen mother and 2nd in arkle

I'll probably need therapy soon - this thread has triggered some bad memories - Boreen Prince another bad one.

Dawn Run won two I can think of CH AND GC

If there was a mare's race in the dawn run era I would guess she won it.?

Ten up wom sun alliance chase then gold cup

One of the most underrated horses of all time, Pearlyman, won the Grand Annual as a novice and then 2 Champion Chases. Might well have been 4 if he hadn't been injured.

and placed in a Sun Alliance hurdle brassneck.
Florida Pearl Bumper RSA Gold Cup place twice
Sprinter Sacre Arkle/Q.M and Supreme place
The West Awake 2 Sun Alliances

Willie Wumpkins Sun Alliance Hurdle and was it 4 Pertemps ?

No mares race then but she finished 2nd in the equivalent of the Neptune

3 pertemps Geoff last one aged 13

Sir Ken won 3 Champion Hurdles and the 2 mile Novice Chase.

Persian War won 3 Champion Hurdles and a Triumph Hurdle.

Arkle won 3 Gold Cups and the 3 mile Novice Chase.

L'Escargot won the Supreme Novices (div) and 2 Gold Cups.

Bula won the Supreme Novices and 2 Champion Hurdles, and was a decent 3rd in a Gold Cup.

Saffron Tartan won a Supreme Novice (div), a Gold Cup, and was 3rd in a Champion Hurdle.

Cheers Patsy
Hardy Eustace Neptune 2 Champions
BUla Supreme 2 Champions
Istabraq Neptune 3 Champions
Moscow Flyer Arkle and 2 Champion C

Cheers Patsy
Hardy Eustace Neptune 2 Champions
BUla Supreme 2 Champions
Istabraq Neptune 3 Champions
Moscow Flyer Arkle and 2 Champion C

Half free won a mildmay of flete and 2 cathcarts as well as those 2 mackesons.

Quiz question chaps - Which horse with a link to a horse mentioned on this thread, won a festival novice hurdle, and returned six years later to fail as a short priced favourite, in a festival novice chase ?

Quita Que was one of Tom Dreaper's less well known horses (at least, he's generally forgotten now), but in a run of 4 years, he was 2nd in 2 Champion Hurdles (the first time by 3/4 length), then won a Cathcart by a distance, then won the first ever Champion Chase (at 4/9), then would have been a hot fav to win it again the following year, but got injured. His stablemate Fortria took over, and became the new 2 mile chase king.

Saffron Tartan, incidentally, was the overnight favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1959, but was withdrawn as he coughed. He then placed in the 1960 Champion Hurdle (going off 3/1 2nd fav), and then won the 1961 Gold Cup. He was a big horse, who had dodgy wind, who was hobdayed in the autumn of 1959. He also won the 1960 KG chase.

Good old Galmoy 2 world hurdles he was our only Irish winner the 2nd time he won

bobs worth the only one so?  3 diff races..

bankit

struggling with that one, he must have been 10 at least in that novice chase

No Kavvie. Ged was correct with the great Flyingbolt - the races that are now the Supreme Novices, Arkle and Champion Chase. He famously came 3rd, to Salmon Spray, in the Champion Hurdle the day after winning the Champion Chase.

Brave Inca
Champion Hurdle (2006)
Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2004)
Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2004)

Arctic Gold won 3 diferent races in the 50's, Flying Bolt & Bobs Worth as mentioned, these 3 are the only horses to have won 3 diferent races at the festival.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Alberts Run, RSA & Ryan Air x2. Never got the credit he deserved that one...

Pearlyman was great horse. I remember Stormyfairweather winning 2 cathcarts in a row.

Looks Like Trouble
RSA Chase (1999)
Pillar Chase (2000)
Cheltenham Gold Cup (2000)

festival races only it says?

The horse bankit is referring to is Sabin Du Loir, and it looks like the only two horses who have won 3 different festival races are Flyingbolt and Bobs Worth.

Correct jimeen - ridden to victory in the Sun Alliance Hurdle by Barney Curley's favourite jockey - Good old Brad.

I think it beat Dawn Run as far as i can remember, a fair scalp to take for a four year old.

That's right jimeen - could have been a real superstar but for injury.

I have to say I wrote some cr&p about Quita Que above. He was trained by Dan Moore, not Tom Dreaper. I think that's twice I've got that wrong. The horse went on to win another Cathcart as a 12yo, so he had a fair old Cheltenham record altogether.

Horses going for 3 this year
Cue Card
Don Poli
Sir De Champs already 2nd in a GC
Vautour

Did L`escargot run at the festival in his Nov. Ch. year.
Winner of the Supreme and 2 Gold Cups and a G. national.

What about Silver Fame the Gold Cup winner? He had a prolific record at Cheltenham and won ten times there. Surely he must have won at least 2 Festivals. Anybody able to check him out?

L'Escargot's Cheltenham festival record...

1968 - Gloucestershire Hurdle (now Supreme Novices) - won
1969 - Champion Hurdle - unplaced behind Persian War
1970 - Gold Cup - won
1971 - Gold Cup - won
1972 - Gold Cup - 4th
1973 - Gold Cup - 4th
1974 - Cathcart - 2nd
1975 - Champion Chase - 7th

In the last year, he was simply using the 2 mile race as a stepping stone to the Grand National, which he won, having finished 3rd in '73, and 2nd in '74. (He also ran in the race in '72, but got put out of the race early on). He also found time to make a trip to the US and win a big chase at Belmont Park. One tough horse.

Silver Fame won the Seven Springs Handicap Chase in 1948.

That was a race run at the festival from 1930 to 1950. Thomond (twice 2nd to Golden Miller in the Gold Cup) also won this race.

Medoc II should be on the list.

He won the infamous National Hunt Juvenile Chase (for 4yos, last run in 1958) in 1938. He then won successive runnings of the aforementioned Seven Springs Chase in 1940 and 1941, and then the Gold Cup in 1942.

Obviously, he doesn't qualify here but Clever Scot won the the equivalent of the World Hurdle and RSA which is the double More Of That is trying to achieve this year. Have any other horses achieved that double?

Solfen won both races in 1960.

More recently, A Kinsman did the double in '83 and '84.

Thanks, I had forgotten about A Kinsman. Never heard of Solfen, did he go on to be a Gold Cup contender?

No he didn't. I don't know what happened to him. He was an 8yo when he did it. He won the novice chase on the Wednesday by 25 lengths at 5/4 fav, and won the hurdle race by a hard fought length the following day at 5/2 fav. Both races had 21 runners. He was trained by Eddie O'Grady's father Willie.

Another horse worth a mention....

Albergo.

1959 - won a division of the Gloucesterhire Hurdle (Supreme Novices)
1960 - ran twice - ran 2nd in the Champion Hurdle, then 2 days later won the County Hurdle under top weight of 12-5 by half a length as the 7-4 fav. (Owned by Mrs C Magnier).

Not very British, celebrating all these winners. What about a plucky loser?
Faasel, 2nd in a Triumph then seemed to finish 2nd every other year in all manner of races. He was also 2nd in a big race at Aintree if memory serves?

Silver Flame has to go on the list.

He also won the National Hunt Handicap Chase in 1950. The Seven Springs (which he won in 1948) morphed into the Mildmay of Flete. He carried 12-7 when winning each of those, and was 12 when he won his Gold Cup in 1951.


Dudley is another for the list. He was a star over 2 miles, once won 17 in a row, and won 3 different races at the festival...

1923 Grand Annual - under 12-7
1927 Amateur Riders Chase - under 12-7
1928 Coventry Cup (effectively, the 2 mile championship. It was its first running.) - he was 14yo

VAUTOUR (2014-16)

Supreme Novices Hurde, JLT Chase, Ryanair Chase.