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The horse won its first Gold Cup at the age of five and won it for five consecutive years. Golden Miller was paired with four different jockeys over the five years.

Gerry Wilson was the only jockey to ride him twice in and Arkle is perhaps the most well-known horse to win the Gold Cup consecutively. No horse has ever gone off at shorter odds in Gold Cup history than Arkle in The most recent winner of at least three consecutive races was Best Mate in Kauto Star was another famous winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Trained by Paul Nicholls, he first won the race in and then again in This made him the only horse to regain the Gold Cup in the history of the race. He was beaten in by stablemate Denman, who he then beat the following year.

Trainer Willie Mullins may have waited quite a long time to bag his first Gold Cup, but when he did in he did it in style with Al Boum Photo. So much so that he came back to win it again in He returned for the treble in and went off as the race favourite.

Golden Miller is the most successful horse in Gold Cup history. He is the only horse to win the race five times, with the closest competition coming from Cottage Rake, Arkle and Best Mate.

All with three Gold Cups each. Pat Taaffe has the most wins as a jockey. Tom Dreaper is the leading trainer with five winners. He had to wait another 18 years to get his next winner. That was Arkle who added three more to his tally. His fifth and final win was Fort Leney in Current horse trainer Paul Nicholls only needs one more winner to take his tally to five horses.

His last winner was Kauto Star in He has a total of 61 festival wins since However, it took him until this year to win his first Gold Cup. The leading owner is Dorothy Paget. She owned Golden Miller for all five of his Gold Cup wins and then added two more to take her total to seven wins. She owned the winner Roman Hackle and Most Tremblant who won the race in His owner took the horse to Cheltenham on the day of the race, but only after he had finished milking his cows.

The fastest ever time for a Gold Cup win was in The record was set by Poet Prince who completed the race in 6 minutes and The time was set on the Old Course. The fastest time around the New Course was set by Long Run in The first ever Gold Cup was presented in The original cup weighed g and it was made up of nine-carat gold as well as being plated in carat gold.

It was passed to the new winner each year until when it went into private ownership. However, in the original trophy was located and returned to Cheltenham racecourse for presentation to the newest winner. Once the presentations are completed, the Gold Cup is returned to the racecourse and a replica is given to the winning owner which is theirs to keep. The first Cheltenham Gold Cup took place in July on a flat course and was first run as a jumps race in March Best Mate entered the scene in to win his first of three consecutive Gold Cups for trainer Henrietta Knight.

The steeplechase is the most prestigious of all National Hunt events and it is sometimes referred to as the Blue Riband of jump-racing. Along with the Gold Cup there are six other races, including two more Grade 1 events; the Triumph Hurdle and the Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle plus three handicaps that all go together to make the last day of the Cheltenham Festival a day to remember. Information appearing on cheltenham-races.