Description
L’Escargot
High Quality art print from an original painting by Graham Isom
Paper/Image Size (no border): 20 x 40 ins / 50 x 102 cm
Other sizes are available.
L’Escargot (1963–1984) was a national hunt racehorse notable as being a Cheltenham Gold Cup and Grand National winner. He was also the horse who halted the winning run of Red Rum at the Aintree Grand National in 1975. L’Escargot was owned by Raymond R. Guest, and ridden by champion Irish jockey Tommy Carberry. He was trained by Dan Moore, and beat Red Rum by 15 lengths.
He won ‘the National’ as a 12-year-old. He ran in four Grand Nationals: 1972 (fell at the third fence), 1973 (finished 3rd), 1974 (finished 2nd) and 1975 (winner).
L’Escargot also won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice, in 1970 and 1971. L’Escargot and Golden Miller are the only two horses to have won both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National. Among other major races won by L’Escargot were the Gloucestershire Hurdle (now the Supreme Novices Hurdle) at Cheltenham, the Scalp Hurdle at Leopardstown, the Meadow Brook Steeplechase at Belmont Park, New York, and the Wills Premier Chase at Haydock Park.
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