The Sun King drank his from a gold cup, a gift from the King of Siam.
Former Dubai Gold Cup winner Opinion Poll was another horse to test positive.
Yorkshire-born Bradley's career in the saddle included victory in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Bregawn.
It was O'Brien's first Gold Cup win and the furthest Yeats had ever raced.
But there is one prize in Singaporean racing that still eludes him: the Gold Cup.
Justified enjoyed his finest hour when outpointing In Compliance in the Powers Gold Cup in 2006.
However, since the 2009 Gold Cup things have most definitely swung in favour of Mexico.
His last runner produced a victory when Skycab won a handicap chase on Attheraces Gold Cup day.
It's premier attractions are the Coral Scottish Grand National and the John Smith's Ayr Gold Cup Festival.
They will be trained to turn up at Cheltenham on Gold Cup day at their very best.
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Among the successes were the Hennessy Gold Cup and King George VI Chase with Teeton Mill in 1998.
Just weeks earlier, the amiable Culloty won the Gold Cup aboard Best Mate.
And a second partnership, with Paul Nicholls, brought him Cheltenham Gold Cup glory in 1999 aboard See More Business.
Meanwhile, Miko de Beauchene followed up his Welsh National win with victory in Haydock's Red Square Vodka Gold Cup.
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Denman was a short-priced favourite to go one better than when chasing stable-mate Kauto Star in the Gold Cup.
He still would have walked off with the gold cup at the playoffs.
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Conor O'Dwyer's mount, who is being aimed at another Gold Cup tilt, claimed an 11-length win in the Star "Best For Racing" Chase.
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Yeats ridden by Kieren Fallon won the the Ascot Gold Cup by four lengths ahead of Reefscape and pre-race favourite Distinction.
He is set to excel at the Gold Cup distance, and has to be very seriously considered, especially at decent each-way odds.
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Besides the Derby and Preakness, he won major stakes including the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Woodward and Santa Anita Handicap, among others.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Jockey Club Gold Cup, inaugurated in 1919 at Belmont and still run there, will be held for the 94th time.
He also confirmed the three-day Grand National Festival had benefited from the cancellation of the Cheltenham Gold Cup due to the foot-and-mouth crisis.
Former Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star will be in action in Saturday's JNwine.com Champion Chase - the big race in the two-day festival.
Former Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup winner Strong Flow will represent Dessie Hughes, with Baron De Feypo and Light On the Broom completing the line-up.
The progressive Lie Forrit holds an entry for Willie Amos, while former Gold Cup winner War Of Attrition is one of 12 Irish-trained possibles.
McCoy had wanted a big return at Cheltenham along the lines of his 1997 Champion Hurdle-Gold Cup double on Make A Stand and Mr Mulligan.
Whether or not Moreira captures his first Gold Cup on Sunday, it seems that the jockey already has one eye on his next career move.
Best Mate remains firmly at the head of the ante-post market for the Gold Cup after the Pillar Chase, usually a reliable trial, proved disappointing.
He said that after she also spurned his offer to take her to the Gold Cup race meeting at Cheltenham, Mr Fraser had felt "disgruntled".
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In Ireland, 2005 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kicking King finished a disappointing third behind shock winner Ballistraw in the Red Mills Chase at Gowran Park.
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