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
Denman (horse) kept him handy and out of trouble, but in the home straight, Diamond Harry matched strides and eventually passed Denman to win, with Burton Port staying on well into second place. Denman's trainer, Paul Nicholls, after the race was delighted with the run and informed the racing public that Denman would not be seen until the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March, where he would try to regain this prize which he last won in 2008. On 20 February 2011, Nicholls reported that Denman had had a wind operation shortly after the Hennessy. The trainer felt that the horse had not