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
Koko (horse) of Champions", based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Koko a "inferior" Gold Cup winner. Koko (horse) Koko (foaled 1918) was an Irish racehorse who won the 1926 Cheltenham Gold Cup. He finished third in the race in 1928 when odds-on favourite and fell in 1929. He also ran twice without success in the Grand National. Koko was a bay gelding bred in Ireland. He was sired by Santoi a top-class flat stayer who won the Ascot Gold Cup in 1901 before becoming a leading National Hunt sire. Koko's dan Persister was a daughter of