- Golden Miller
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Golden Miller
caption =
sire = Gold Court
grandsire = Goldminer
dam = Millers Pride
damsire = Wavelets Pride
sex =Gelding
foaled = 1927
country =Ireland flagicon|Ireland
colour = Bay
breeder =T K Geraghty
owner =Philip W. Carr Dorothy Paget (1931)
trainer =Basil Briscoe
record = 55: 29-7-6
earnings = Not found
race =Cheltenham Gold Cup
(1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936)Grand National (1934)
awards=
honours =
updated= March 16, 2007Golden Miller (1927-1957) was a
Thoroughbred racehorse who is the onlyhorse to have won both of theUnited Kingdom 's premier steeplechase races - theCheltenham Gold Cup and theGrand National - in the same year (1934 ), setting a new course record for Aintree in the National. The 1934 win was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record. He was trained byBasil Briscoe in Longstowe,Cambridgeshire and retired in 1939 with a record of 28 wins from 52 races. He was owned by the very eccentricDorothy Paget .Trivia
* A coach operator,
Tellings-Golden Miller , operating in South West London, is so called because its founder, on the brink of bankruptcy, wagered his remaining savings on the horse and won. Many of the firm's coaches have a portrait of the horse on the front or side of the vehicle.* The village of
Longstowe ,Cambridgeshire used to have a public house called the Golden Miller, renamed from The Three Horseshoes in honour of the racehorse who was trained at Longstowe Hall. The pub closed in 2001.ee also
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Repeat winners of horse races References
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,6903,659014,00.html An Observer Classic: 25 March 1934]
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/golden+miller Golden Miller's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=835 Golden Miller at the United Kingdom's National Horseracing Museum]
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