Bryan Cooper: We’ve put the doubters in their place

Bryan Cooper turned his head to face the masses in Cheltenham’s grandstand as he crossed the line on Don Cossack in yesterday’s Gold Cup and, as he did, he released a roar that will have surely silenced his many doubters.

A three-time winner here at his first festival in 2013, he has juggled some good times with some bad since.

Cooper was riding Clarcam in the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle 12 months later when falling at the second last.