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
Hong Kong Gold Cup owner of the horse winning all three legs of the Triple Crown Series and a consolation bonus of HK$2,000,000 will be paid to the owner of the horse winning any two legs Hong Kong Champion and former Horse of the Year River Verdon won this race three times and in 1994 became the only horse to ever win the Triple Crown. The 2002 winner "Industrial Pioneer" was later exported to Europe and renamed "Sobriety". Hong Kong Gold Cup The Hong Kong Gold Cup is a Hong Kong Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1979 at Sha Tin Racecourse. It is