Garrison Savannah (horse) Garrison Savannah (horse) Garrison Savannah (1983 - 2005) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. He won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1991 by a short-head from The Fellow with Desert Orchid back in third place. In the same year, he came second in the Aintree Grand National. He won the previous year's Royal & SunAlliance Chase. He had only one race between his two Cheltenham Festival wins. In that race he came second to Celtic Shot in the Tommy Whittle Chase. His Gold Cup win is rather unusual in that he beat two former champions in Desert Orchid (third) and Norton's Coin
Mr Mulligan (horse) grapefruit-sized hematoma on his back which was slow to heal and put the rest of his season in doubt. The horse spent three weeks in the care of Mary Bromiley, an equine physiotherapist, before returning to Chance to be prepared for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Twelve days before the race, the horse was sent to Newbury racecourse for an exercise gallop, where, according to Chance, he "worked appallingly, badly even for him." A better piece of work a week later convinced the trainer to send him to Cheltenham. Mr Mulligan's erratic performances and disrupted preparation saw him sent off a