Barry Geraghty and Bobs Worth win the 2013 Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup in style as they come back from midfield. But that fight was short-lived as Kauto Star was gone in a matter of strides and kept pulling clear for a scintillating 13-length victory. As a result, the Gold Cup was switched from its traditional slot on Thursday to become the highlight of the new Friday raceday. A delighted Mullins admitted afterwards: “I’d resigned myself to maybe never winning a Gold Cup, so I said I wasn’t going to obsess about it. Golden Miller’s owner Dorothy Paget is also the most successful owner in the race with seven victories, with Roman Hackle (1940) and Mont Tremblant (1952) adding to Golden Miller’s five wins. The big hope from the Paul Nicholls stable, but fell and unseated in his two starts against Coneygree last season (went off favourite both times). The 1990s witnessed a couple of historic results. MT24497111 | New Jersey Vendor Licence. Won at the last two Cheltenham Festivals for Willie Mullins, but his form doesn’t look as good as many of his similarly priced rivals. He was no fan of heavy ground either, but had to contend with a surface so muddy following heavy rain in the morning that there had been doubts about the race going ahead. However he looked as good as ever on his comeback on Sunday, but has never been allowed to run on ground faster than good-to-soft. Dual Gold Cup-winning trainer Michael Dickinson may have trained fewer winners of the race than Dreaper but in 1983 he pulled off one of the most remarkable feats in Cheltenham Festival history. "It's easier when he's in Pat's and I know he's being looked after and couldn't be in better hands. The race was billed as a heavyweight showdown between the superstar from Ireland and the previous year’s Gold Cup winner Mill House, a great in his own right who had already beaten Arkle in that season’s Hennessy. 2016 Cheltenham Festival – Gold Cup Preview Published on 12/11/15 By Tim @ Betting Gods The most prestigious race of the entire Cheltenham Festival is run over 3 mile 2½ furlongs and 22 fences and, should all the leading protagonists turn-up fit and well, the 2016 renewal could be the most fiercely contested Gold Cup for many a year. Run on the New course at Cheltenham racecourse in March, the Grade 1 chase provides the highlight of the four-day Cheltenham Festival and, with prize-money of £625,000, is the most valuable jumps race in Britain and Ireland after the Grand National. He moved to the front jumping the second-last and stormed up the hill for a pulsating two-and-a-half-length victory from a staying-on Anibale Fly. Kemboy beat his stablemate two months later in the Punchestown Gold Cup and both are among the leading fancies for the 2020 Gold Cup. Put up a scintillating front-running performance when winning last year’s Gold Cup on only his 4th chase start, but would become only the second horse in over 30 years to defend his crown. He was no fan of heavy ground either, but had to contend with a surface so muddy following heavy rain in the morning that there had been doubts about the race going ahead. But his finest moment came in the 1989 Gold Cup, a race judged by Racing Post readers in a 2005 poll to be the greatest of all time. He hated running at left-handed tracks and had a particularly disappointing record at Cheltenham, where he had tackled two Champion Hurdles and two Champion Chases without success. But his finest moment came in the 1989 Gold Cup, a race judged by Racing Post readers in a 2005 poll to be the greatest of all time. One who was certain to relish the heavy ground was Yahoo, and he looked the surefire winner when sweeping past Desert Orchid approaching two out as his rival started to struggle in the mud. Dreaper went on to win two more Gold Cups with Prince Regent (1946) and Fort Leney (1968), claiming the title of the most successful trainer in the history of the race, while Arkle’s jockey Pat Taaffe was also on board Fort Leney and his four victories make him the Gold Cup’s most successful jockey. The 1986 winner Dawn Run became only the fourth mare to land the Gold Cup but, more significantly, the first horse to win the Champion Hurdle (1984) and the Gold Cup, while three years later Desert Orchid recorded one of the most popular successes in the race and entered the record books as the only grey to ever win. Showed his best form in the spring so far in his short career and, after routing his rivals in a big handicap off a mark of 145, he went on to finish runner-up in both the Gold Cup and Punchestown Gold Cup. His rider Simon Sherwood summed up the performance, saying: “I’ve never known a horse so brave. But that fight was short-lived as Kauto Star was gone in a matter of strides and kept pulling clear for a scintillating 13-length victory. Kemboy had the briefest of involvement, unseating David Mullins at the first fence, while Bellshill was pulled up by Ruby Walsh mid-race after a series of jumping errors. Finished 4th in last year’s Gold Cup, but both trainer and jockey thought he might have won on good ground. Mullins, who went into this year's meeting as the all-time leading Festival trainer, will be represented by Bellshill - the pick of stable jockey Ruby Walsh - Al Boum Photo, Kemboy and Invitation Only. Having triumphed in 2002 and 2003, Best Mate was sent off the 8-11 favourite to land the hat-trick but in the event had to call on all his resolution to see off a determined Harbour Island and a fast-finishing Sir Rembrandt.