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Cheltenham's greatest giant-killings

Cool Ground beats Carvill's Hill
Gold Cup, 1992

It was a race that was all about Carvill's Hill, the even-money favourite and many people's idea of the Third Coming, after Jesus and Arkle, not necessarily in that order of merit. Here was a wonderhorse, a tank who could crush pretty much any opposition unwise enough to stand in his way, but also fragile in the way that the big beasts sometimes are.

Martin Pipe had transformed him after his arrival from Ireland in 1991, nursing him through his frailties to annex the Rehearsal Chase and the Welsh National (in one of the most awesome displays of weight-carrying excellence seen in decades), then taking the plunge, hoping that the 1992 Gold Cup would be kinder to him than the 1989 renewal when he fell at the seventh behind Desert Orchid.