Whitbread Trophy News Today

From Olympic gold medallists to works of art, famous horses take many guises. Here is Horse & Hound’s definitive guide to the most famous horses of all.

“TO talk of drama is to speak of the very essence of the Grand National, but in the long and compelling history of this extraordinary race there have been few finishes to match the breathtaking late, late surge by the favourite Rough Quest on whom Mick Fitzgerald seized the most spectacular of victories.” So wrote John Karter for The Sunday Times of the 7/1 shot trained by Downings man Terry Casey in 1996. It was, as they say, a thriller and as the runners go to post this Saturday for the b...