2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup Best Mate Post Race Including Enclosure

1st Best Mate 2nd Sir Rembrant 3rd Harbour pilot
3.15 18th March 2004 Distance 3m2f Going Good Course Cheltenham
Trainer Henrietta Knight Jockey Jim Culloty

[@OGA_999]

CONTINUE TO RIP "MATEY". What a Champion he was. He knew how good he was too and simply loved the attention, the spotlight and all the rest of it. Great watching it over and over again. Still goosebumps EVERYTIME

[@flower-ss2jt]

Best Mate always made me smile because he just adored people looking at him. He could be quite ordinary, then Best Mate walked into a ring and he would put on a show that just screamed 'Look at me'. As Hen said he was 'the Robbie Williams of horses'.

[@colintucker2247]

Was there..never 4get

[@Jord-hw2qy]

That jump at the second last... wow!!!

[@user-xi4sq8bi2w]

What a great gold cup horse

[@tomwilliams5604]

Thanks for uploading this, the horse at 08:20 is a special sight

[@jeffreymurtagh3702]

Goosebumps everytime

[@dunewalks5988]

The claps would a quarter the volume these days as almost all hands would be holding a phone

[@jackglossop4859]

Quite nice to hear people clapping in the winner's enclosure. These days they're just filming.

[@paulbest2203]

Get teary watching him still

[@moyajanko6642]

Super quality piece, MrSilverbuck. Thank you.

[@cameronlock1260]

RIP Best Mate

[@James-lm6wt]

How far back did beef or salmon come from

[@arthurashton7763]

I remember ankle. He was a super horse. I've been backing horses for 60 years. It's my honest opinion that best mate was better than ankle. He was a,true champion

[@johnfarrell5075]

CATCH A GRIP!!!! YOU'VE BEEN BACKING HORSES FOR 60 YEARS AND LEARNED SWEET FA!!! ARKLE NOT ANKLE WOULD GIVE HIM A STONE AND BEAT HIM OUTTA SIGHT

[@arthurashton7763]

@@johnfarrell5075 me and Tony McCoy must be wrong.

[@johnfarrell5075]

@@arthurashton7763 THERES NO WAY MCCOY WOULD EVEN TALK OF HIM IN SAME BREATH ITS ALWAYS HARD TO JUDGE ERA TO ERA BUT JUST LOOK AT THE RACES ARKLE RAN IN FIRSTLY HE WASNT A TWO RACE A SEASON HORSE SECONDLY HE GAVE AND WASNT AFRAID TO GIVE STUPID AMONTS OF WEIGHT AWAY BEST MATE GOOD AS HE WAS NEVER DONE EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT ARKLE DONE AND WOULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT INJURY ( SORRY ABOUT CAPS BY WAY I'M NOT ANGRY JUST STUPID KEYBOARD )

[@arthurashton7763]

You have been reading to much rubbish . Why don't you ask Tony mc coy.

[@johnfarrell5075]

@@arthurashton7763 I believe my eyes lad and respected judges like timeform etc even kauto star was miles better than this fraud for someone saying that best mate was even close he must be biddlecomes child or maybe just anti irish????

[@colincampbell815]

Legend ❤️

[@murdoch691]

Bow down to the bow down to the king he knows how good he is you can see it strutting his shit man

[@Marylebonian]

Anyone else hear Henrietta say effing awful song at the end?