1982 Cheltenham Gold Cup Silver Buck Defeats Bregawn & Night Nurse Inc Ext Post Race

1st Silver Buck 2nd Bregawn 3rd Sunset Cristo
Also Includes Tied Cottage, Grittar, Lesley Ann & Diamond Edge

[@pauldrohan322]

What a fantastic chaser Silver Buck was. It was great to see the post race footage into the winners enclosure. Thanks!

[@paulbest2203]

When Gold cups were great races with great chasers .Commentary by Peter O Sullivan was magnificent.Great memories

[@MrGezz66]

No horse deserved to win a Gold Cup more than Bucket. He dominated the staying chase scene for 3 seasons. That was probably the limit of his stamina range, but he was a bit like Best Mate in that he tended to idle in front. It was a 1-2-3 for the North too. Incredible that he went off a 8/1, but he had had an interrupted preparation, running only 12 days before in an egg and spoon race at Market Rasen.

[@jabhookjabcross4231]

Silver buck, a truly great chaser, definitely not given the recognition he deserved. A barney curley purchase from Ireland. The king George was abandoned in 81 when he would have been going for a treble.

[@charliebear1436]

Silver Buck, best and most athletic three mile chaser ever.

[@danpalmer7676]

I like seeing the betting list at the start of these as it shows the quality we had in those days. Today it just doesn't come close.Border Incident 40/1 blimey..I know he didn't really see out the trip but jockey(cant have been J.Francome surely) must have thought he was riding Pegasus,he was so far out of his ground.

[@julzyboy1973]

Tied Cottage was back at Cheltenham the following year aged 15 in the Foxhunters. I loved that horse. One of the very best to not have his name on that Gold Cup winners list. The disqualification in 1980 was a disgrace,

[@denisoconnell1895]

Tued Cottage...what a horse....surely deserved to win one...the disqualification was harsh and came came down at the last when challenging the winner a few years previously

[@gerardlacey5428]

It should never have been taken away from him

[@lessamuels3767]

Loved Bucky ..Bradley the corrupt jockey and tarnished for life

[@jeffreyharris3887]

Night Nurse was saying "I've had enough" .Loved that horse

[@MrGezz66]

He was already 11yo and had missed one year with serious injury. Started on the flat, so really owed connections nothing. He was favourite almost by default, because his form that season wasn't that sparkling, and coming into the race, it didn't look a vintage Gold Cup on paper. As it turns out, it was a very decent one.

[@teenoso4069]

Youth helps but how Michael Dickinson rode as a pro for 10 seasons despite being 6'2 with a natural weight well over 12st was testimony to his drive in an age when nutrition and dietary options were limited.

[@itsonlypassingtime]

Wonderful uploads. Do you have any of the 2004 onwards videos that can be uploaded somewhere RTV won't take them down? Dailymotion maybe?

[@mickharrison9004]

As usual silver buck wins when fairly unfancied at 8 to 1 ,nothing changes with the game from 50 yrs ago .bent twts .

[@csb7376]

Peter had a bit of trouble with Grittar with Sunset Christo in the field.