The legendary Fergie Sutherland, best known as the trainer of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, died yesterday in Marymount Hospice, Cork following a long illness. He was 81.

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John Francome is considered by many who saw him at his best to have been the finest jump jockey of all time, and he enjoyed his greatest success in the saddle on Midnight Court in the 1978 Cheltenham Gold Cup.