No horse has carried 12st 7lb to victory in the Coral Gold Cup since. Tom Dreaper’s horse won by 10 lengths, from Ferry Boat and The Rip, with Mill House back in fourth place.Īrkle was saddled with 12st 7lb in the Hennessy again in 1965, another Cheltenham Gold Cup on his CV, as well as a Whitbread and another Leopardstown Chase, and he duly won it again. We Rank The Best Horse Racing Betting SitesĪrkle carried 12st 7lb in the 1964 Hennessy, but that burden didn’t stop him either.
The mere result doesn’t tell the full story of the race though, because Arkle made a bad mistake at the third last fence that day, from which he did well to recover.īy the time the 1964 Hennessy Gold Cup rolled around, Arkle had avenged that defeat in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and had added an Irish Grand National to his CV, a race that he won under the welter weight of 12 stone. The primary difficulty in discussing Arkle in the context of the Coral Gold Cup is in limiting your discussion to the Coral Gold Cup.Īrkle’s first run in the Coral Gold Cup - the Hennessy as it was then and all the way to 2016 - was in 1963 when, in receipt of 5lb from the 1963 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Mill House, he could finish only third behind The Big Horse.
When you are talking National Hunt racing, Arkle is number one on most lists.
