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L'escargot The Champion Gold Cup And Grand National Runner
L'Escargot won successive Cheltenham Festival Gold Cups in 1970 and 1971, as well as finishing third, second and finally first in the Grand National of 1973, 1974 and 1975 respectively. If that wasn't impressive enough, he is the only horse other than Golden Miller to have won both the Gold Cup and the National. If judged on his peak performances he rates as one of the best steeplechasers of all time. What's not to be impressed with?
Bred by Escart III out of What a Daisy, he was bought as a three year old for 3,000 guineas on behalf of millionaire U.S Ambassador to Ireland Mr Raymond Guest., and sent to the Fairyhouse yard of master trainer Dan Moore.
Undoubtedly it is the cream of the horsing crop who are entered into the Gold Cup, but occasionally it is an overlooked horse that sneaks through to take the glory. Such was the case with L'Escargot in 1970, who started the 1970 Gold Cup as a 33/1 shot, yet he went on to win the race as well as the Gold Cup the following year (when of course he had moved up in the rankings!)
Could L'Escargot have won the Gold Cup for a third time? He may have done, but he only came fourth in the 1972 and 1973 race and by this stage Guest was very obviously anxious to win a National before his luck deserted him. He had won the Derby twice and the Gold Cup twice, which is good going for any horse owner. L'Escargot had won both the Gold Cups under regular jockey Tommy Carberry, who was also desperate for L'Escargot to race around Aintree: "I'm sure he is a National horse and next year, at the age of nine, he should be in his prime," he said before L'Escargot was entered to the National for the first time.
L'Escargot is a very deceiving name for a horse who was a speed demon from the outset - he had to have been to fight off Red Rum for first place in the 1975 Grand National, which was an amazing turning of the tables considering the previous year it had been L'Escargot coming second to Red Rum. By his 1975 victory L'Escargot was twelve years old, but dropping in the weights and therefore was receiving eleven pounds from Red Rum. An Irish horse hadn't won the Grand National since Mr What in 1958, but his newly applied blinkers gave L'Escargot the renewed concentration that had perhaps been lacking the previous two years.
Having achieved his eighteen year ambition Guest decided that L'Escargot had done enough for him and announced his retirement which he was to spend in the care of Dan Moore and his wife. However the following season L'Escargot was so lively that Moore decided to race him one more time, in the Kerry National where he was beaten by just a head. The shocked Guest promptly had him shipped to Virginia where he lived on for another decade.
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