Golden Miller
| Golden Miller | |
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| Sire | Goldcourt |
| Grandsire | Goldminer |
| Dam | Millers Pride |
| Damsire | Wavelets Pride |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 30 April 1927 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Laurence Geraghty |
| Owner |
Philip W. Carr Dorothy Paget (1931) |
| Trainer |
Basil Briscoe Owen Anthony |
| Record | 52: 29-7-6 |
| Major wins | |
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Cheltenham Gold Cup (1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936) Grand National (1934) |
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| Last updated on 18 January 2011 | |
Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934).
He was bred at the yard of Laurence Geraghty, grandfather of jockey Barry Geraghty, in Pelletstown, Co. Meath, Ireland in 1927. He was sired by the unraced Goldcourt, who stood at a stud fee of five guineas and sired two Irish Grand National winners. His dam, Miller's Pride, was an ex-hunter who was placed and the dam of the good steeplechaser May Crescent. Her sire, Wavelet's Pride, won the Great Metropolitan Stakes, a hurdle race, and other races before he became a top jumper sire.
Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940–41 and 1951-52.
In 1931, Golden Miller made his steeplechasing debut at Newbury Racecourse where he finished first, only to be disqualified for carrying incorrect weight. On 30 December, he won the Reading Chase before winning the Sefton Steeplechase on 20 January 1932.
In 1933, as a six-year-old and winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cups, he started as the 9/1 favourite in the Grand National but fell at the Canal Turn.
In the 1934 Grand National win, he set a new course record of 9 min 20.4s for Aintree. This victory was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.
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