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The following year, Mill House took Arkle on again in the Gold Cup but lost. His size meant increasing back problems, and he failed to participate in 1966 when Arkle won his third crown. In 1967, Mill House was back but Arkle was not, having been retired after suffering a serious leg injury a few
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Whitbread Gold Cup under top weight at Sandown Park. It was his last major win. Continuing back weakness plagued his campaign in 1968 when he fell again in both the Cheltenham and Whitbread Gold Cups. He died in October 1975.
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Known as 'The Big Horse' on account of his height of 18 hands, Mill House took part in one of the most famous battles of
National Hunt Racing when in March 1964, he defended his Cheltenham crown against the Irish star Arkle. Trained by
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