Thanks++ fro this. Imperial call was electric, reminded me of Pendil. But he took a bad fall during his next race; that November, and was never quite same horse afterwards
Possibly the most underrated Gold Cup winner, beating possibly the most underrated Grand National winner. Rough Quest never comes up when great National winners are discussed, but how many National winners take form like this into Aintree, beaten 4 lengths second in the Gold Cup. And that was a tremendous performance by the winner.
@@deniseshephard6947 From the look of it a 100 percent neck-breaker fall. Terrible end for such a great horse who'd never put a foot wrong. Can't imagine what caused this mistake.
One Man ended up winning the champion chase over 2 miles. He didn't like the hill in the gold cup like so many others. The whole Imperial Call story was a fairytale with what seemed like the whole of his village coming over for the race.
Despite Master Oats being absent to defend his title it was a good field. Poor One Man never got the gold cup trip despite winning at this distance before.
I could never understand why St Mellion Fairway was declared for this race as a novice (a non-runner on the day). He'd only ran three times over fences winning twice at Lingfield but fell when well behind Mr Mulligan in the Reynoldstown Chase.
