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
Sodexo Gold Cup began sponsoring the race in 2015. Most successful horse: Leading jockey (3 wins): Leading trainer (2 wins): Sodexo Gold Cup The Sodexo Gold Cup is a Grade 3 National Hunt race in Great Britain. It is a handicap steeplechase and is run at Ascot Racecourse in late October or early November, over a distance of about 3 miles (2 miles, 7 furlongs and 180 yards, or 4,791 metres). The race was first run as the United House Gold Cup on 28 October 2006 as a Class 2 race. It was worth £100,000 and was run over three miles. In 2009