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
Ladbrokes Trophy the Whitbread Gold Cup, which was first run seven months before the "Hennessy", and which was sponsored by Whitbread until 2001. Ladbrokes were announced as the new race sponsor in February 2017. The race has been won by nine horses which have also won the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The most recent of these is Native River, the winner of the latter race in 2018. Many Clouds became the first horse to win both the Hennessy Gold Cup and the Grand National, in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Most successful horse (2 wins): Leading jockey (3 wins): Leading trainer (7 wins): Ladbrokes