Tim Forster Cheltenham Gold Cup (1964, 1965, 1966). Last Suspect was said to be "moody, unreliable, disinterested". During the race at Warwick prior to the 1985 Grand National, the 11-year-old gelding pulled himself up. Forster and the Duchess of Westminster only ran him in the race at the insistence of his jockey Hywel Davies. Last Suspect won by 1 lengths in front of Mr Snugfit and the 1983 Grand National winner Corbiere coming in third. Forster moved to Downton Hall Stables, 2 miles north of Ludlow on the Downton Hall estate in Shropshire in the summer of 1994. Forster retired with a
Bartholomew Bretherton (jockey) Bartholomew Bretherton (jockey) Bartholomew Bretherton (1812–1866) was a jockey from Maghull, north of Liverpool who rode many times in the Grand National as an amateur rider, winning the race in 1840 in the colours of Henry Villebois on his horse Jerry. Bretherton's father was Francis Bretherton (c. 1770 – 1833), coach proprietor of Maghull. Bretherton was his eighth child and third son. Bretherton's father and older brother Peter (second child and first son of Francis) were credited with starting horse-racing at Maghull Meadows, the precursor of Aintree Racecourse, in the late 1820s and 1830s. On 29 February 1836 a handicap