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Kauto Star Cheltenham Gold Cup 2009

Kauto Star: the great chaser winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2009

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker(racingpost.com/photos)  

 By Andrew Dietz 5:26PM 10 MAR 2016 

AS A record five-time winner of the King George VI Chase, Kauto Star will always be synonymous with Kempton but such is the chasing legend’s mass appeal his exploits at Cheltenham are just as celebrated.

The most successful chaser of the modern era possessed a potent concoction of charisma and class mixed with a steely determination and boundless will to win, perfectly illustrated by the fact he is the only horse to have regained jump racing’s most coveted prize.

Given that remarkable achievement it comes as no surprise that the Paul Nicholls-trained superstar topped a Racing Post poll to discover the most popular Gold Cup winner, gaining 51 per cent of the #RPPeoplesChamp vote on Twitter.

Having seen off three goliaths of the turf in Denman, Desert Orchid and Best Mate in the Gold Cup poll, Kauto Star will now take his place against the winners of the other championship race polls – Hurricane Fly (Champion Hurdle), Sprinter Sacre (Champion Chase) and Big Buck’s (World Hurdle) – in a grand final as we look to crown the overall people’s champion of Cheltenham.

Kauto Star’s progression into a Prestbury Park powerhouse got off to the worst possible start as he fell at the third on his first festival appearance in the 2006 Champion Chase.

A year later, stepped up to the Gold Cup trip for the first time, he banished those memories to take his first title in commanding fashion with the only scare coming at the last fence, albeit not in quite as dramatic circumstances as at Kempton or Newbury earlier that season.

The following campaign signalled the start of his great rivalry with Denman, stablemate and neighbour at Nicholls’ Ditcheat base, with the heavyweight clashes between the equine equivalents of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman gripping the sporting world over the next few years.

Unlike the Rumble In The Jungle, Ali could not live with the brute strength of Foreman in the 2008 Gold Cup as Kauto Star trailed in seven lengths behind his great rival Denman.

Dealing with defeat is the test of a true champion and 12 months later Kauto Star exacted his revenge when routing Denman by almost double the distane (13 lengths) to become the widest-margin winner since Master Oats in 1995, and first horse to regain the Gold Cup.

It would be his greatest festival moment, judged by the ratings experts as the finest since Arkle in the mid-1960s. Try as he might though, in the next three Gold Cups the best Kauto Star could achieve was third behind Long Run in 2011.

The 2012 Gold Cup proved to be Kauto Star’s last race and although there was no fairytale ending the reception afforded to him by the Cheltenham crowd as he trotted back to the paddock after being pulled up was testament to his status as the greatest steeplechaser of his generation.

Following his death last year his ashes were laid to rest under his statue at Kempton, but his memories live on.

Other finalists

Denman (checked cap): gallops his rivals, including stablemate Kauto Star (right), into the ground in the 2008 Gold Cup

Denman (second left): gallops his rivals into the ground in 2008

  PICTURE: Getty Images  

Denman 22 per cent
Nicknamed The Tank due to his huge frame and destructive nature, he became widely known for his great rivalry with Kauto Star for the Gold Cup, conjuring a devastating display of relentless galloping in 2008 to dispatch his old foe. Beset by heart problems he struggled to recapture those heights, although he did go on to produced one of the finest weight-carrying performances when shouldering 11st 12lb to victory in the Hennessy Gold Cup two seasons later.

Desert Orchid - 1989 Gold Cup

Desert Orchid: answered all the questions in the 1989 Gold Cup

  PICTURE: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)  

Desert Orchid 14 per cent
The dashing grey, simply known as Dessie, achieved iconic status with his trailblazing style over shorter distances but had plenty of questions surrounding him going into the 1989 Gold Cup. But boy did he answer them, as despite hating the heavy ground he overhauled Yahoo on the run-in in one of the greatest races of all time.

Best Mate

Best Mate: equalled Arkle’s record with third straight Gold Cup win in 2004

  PICTURE: Getty Images  

Best Mate 13 per cent
One of the most-loved horses in racing history, the Henrietta Knight-trained chasing great equalled the achievements of Arkle when winning the Gold Cup three years in a row in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He became public property and his death at Exeter in 2005 made the front pages of national newspapers.

The full results

Round 1
Best Mate 39%
Arkle 34%
Synchronised 24%
Jodami 3%

Round 2
Kauto Star 78%
Dawn Run 16%
Norton’s Coin 4%
Captain Christy 2%

Round 3
Desert Orchid 46%
Coneygree 34%
Imperial Commander 17%
The Fellow 3%

Round 4
Denman 78%
Mill House 8%
L’Escargot 8%
Burrough Hill Lad 6%

Gold Cup final
Kauto Star 51%
Denman 22%
Desert Orchid 14%
Best Mate 13%

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Gold Cup round of #RPPeoplesChamp. The poll for the overall winner starts on Friday

 

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