Day of Pride for our Best Mate

DREAMS are fulfilled here. Dreams die here.

Day of Pride for our Best Mate

Yesterday, Michael Bowe's dream died, as did Michael Hourigan's - sadly, in more ways than one. But for Jim Culloty, Hen Knight, Terry Biddlecombe and Jim Lewis, the dream became reality as Best Mate cracked a 32-year jinx to become the first horse since L'Escargot to win back-to-back Gold Cups.

And JP McManus was another whose dream was realised when his Baracouda won the Stayer's Hurdle for the second year on the trot.

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