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Deep Impact (horse)
Deep Impact swept Japan’s Triple Crown unbeaten in 2005. The Kikuka Sho, the long final race of the series, is a good place to see what separated him from his own age group. He went on to win major races against older horses, so the three-year-old record was the beginning of the story.
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Almond Eye
Almond Eye won the Japan Cup in 2018 and came back for a second win in 2020, on her final start. Contrail, winner of Japan’s Triple Crown, and Daring Tact, winner of the fillies’ Triple Crown, followed her home. The 2020 replay puts an established champion and two younger stars in the same finish.
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Golden Miller
Golden Miller won five consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups in the 1930s. One of them came in 1934, when he also won the Grand National at Aintree. That double is his shorthand for a reason. It puts two very different tests over fences into the same season.
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Arkle
Arkle won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1964, 1965 and 1966. Start with the first, when he beat the defending winner Mill House. The next two wins explain how a result that meant the rivalry had turned became the beginning of an era at Cheltenham.
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Dawn Run
Dawn Run won the Champion Hurdle in 1984 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1986. The two races use different kinds of obstacles, with bigger fences in the Gold Cup. Watching both helps show how unusual it was for the same mare to excel at the two disciplines.
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Desert Orchid
Desert Orchid made the King George VI Chase at Kempton a holiday fixture, winning it four times. For a different side of him, watch his 1989 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Its uphill finish on testing ground shows why a horse best known for his Kempton wins could earn a separate following at Cheltenham.
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Kauto Star
Kauto Star lost his Cheltenham Gold Cup title to Denman in 2008 and won it back in 2009. This pair of races is a good way into jump racing’s longer rivalries. Both horses returned to the same test, and the finish that had looked decisive a year before no longer predicted the result.
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Tiger Roll
Tiger Roll won the Grand National in 2018 and again in 2019. Red Rum had been the last horse to win two in a row. Watching the finishes in order gives you a feel for the difference between getting around Aintree once and returning to win when a whole crowd knows what’s at stake.
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