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31: 508:, started the 8/11 favourite ahead of Gib (ridden by Easter Hero's 1929 jockey, Dick Rees) on 13/8 whilst the only other two runners were Grakle on 10/1 and the 50/1 outsider Danzelon. As usual Easter Hero set off in front and survived alarming errors at the first two fences to open up a clear lead. Danzelon fell early and Grakle was soon struggling, but Gib stayed in contention and steadily reduced the favourite's lead. Easter Hero and Gib came to the second last together, but the younger horse made a bad mistake, unseated Rees, and allowed the favourite to come home unchallenged. Grakle was twenty lengths away in second whilst Gib was remounted and finished the course to take third place. 336: 396: 99: 355:. His style of racing seldom varied: he took the lead at the start, opened up a big lead and was rarely challenged. In February he was tried over three and a half miles in the Coventry Chase at Kempton and won easily under a weight of 173 pounds. He looked likely to start favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup but was sold before the race to the Belgian financier 30: 469:
In the Grand National Easter Hero carried top weight of 175 pounds and started the 9/1 favourite in a record field of sixty-six runners. As in the previous year he led soon after the start and set a strong pace but on this occasion the obstacles gave him no problems and he held a clear advantage from
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where he misjudged the ditch on the take-off side and landed on top of the fence before sliding back into the ditch. With the horse left trapped in the ditch the other runners had to take evasive action, leading to a pile-up which brought the field to a stand-still. Largely as a result of the
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rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Easter Hero a "great" Gold Cup winner and the best British steeplechaser of the 20th century. They also described his second-place finish in the 1929 Grand National as "the greatest single performance in the history" of the race.
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in the same month before attempting to repeat his 1929 success in the Gold Cup. He faced a challenge from Gib, an improving seven-year-old who had been unbeaten in his last seven races including a decisive victory over Gregalach. Easter Hero, under the mount of Irish jockey
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called Easter Hero's run "one of the best performances in the history of the race". He also defended the jockey against criticisms that he had made "too much use" of the favourite, pointing out that the horse was at his best when allowed to race from the front.
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later that month, a race for which he had been the ante-post favourite. Cullinan had already been slated for Easter Hero's mount, but what appeared to be an unlucky break for the jockey in reality proved highly fortuitous; Cullinan went on to ride
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on the second circuit when he fell after being hampered by a loose horse and a falling opponent. Despite his exertions he turned out for the Champion Chase over two miles seven furlongs on the following day in which he
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Easter Hero was sent to France in summer and started favourite for the Grand Steeplechase de Paris. He built up his customary big lead but was pulled up by his jockey after sustaining a back injury at the water jump.
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commented "Easter Hero, in cantering away with the Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday, gave one of the most sparkling exhibitions of clean, quick jumping and resolute galloping ever seen on this particular course".
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with the aim of winning the National. In his first attempt at the race he fell at the eighth and brought the field to a virtual halt after becoming trapped in the ditch in front of the fence.
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when he failed by a head to concede 23 pounds to Desert Chief. He was then denied a chance to complete a hat-trick of Gold Cup wins when the 1931 Cheltenham Festival was abandoned. In the
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who opted to miss the race. It later transpired that Loewenstein had paid £7000 for the gelding, with an agreement to pay an additional £3000 if he won that year's Grand National.
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After an absence of over nine months, Easter Hero returned to win the Wigston Chase at Leicester in December 1930 and then took the Mole Handicap chase at
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In the 1927/28 National Hunt season Easter Hero emerged as a top-class steeplechaser with a series of impressive wins including the Becher Chase at
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which hampered his progress from then on. He was still in front at the second last but was overtaken and beaten six lengths into second place by
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Easter Hero was given a lengthy break before returning for the 1929/30 National Hunt Season. He recorded easy wins in the Penkridge Chase at
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Blaris by eight lengths. He was aimed at the Grand National and was strongly fancied despite a surprise defeat in the Buckhurst Chase at
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the fourth fence. At some point after clearing Valentine's Brook on the second circuit however he partially dislodged and twisted a
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he was ridden by Rees and started the 5/1 favourite against forty-one rivals under a weight of 175 pounds. He was going well until
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with the French horse Coup de Chapeau. Taking the view that the horse was now past his prime, Whitney opted to retire him.
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However, in claiming victory at Cheltenham, Easter Hero sustained a tendon injury and was unable to contest the
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After the end of his racing career, Easter Hero was sent to the United States was used by Whitney as a
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incident only two horses completed the course, with the victory going to the 100/1 outsider
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on 4 July 1928. His horses were put up for sale and Easter Hero was bought by the American
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and started the 7/4 favourite in a ten-runner field with his rivals including
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After Loewenstein's mysterious death Easter Hero was bought by the American
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horses. His other offspring included the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner
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Jock Whitney, Easter Hero's fifth and final owner on the cover of
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in 1929 and 1930 and made three unsuccessful attempts to win the
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established him as a leading steeplechaser and he was bought by
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Alfred Loewenstein, Easter Hero's fourth owner depicted in 1926
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Eastern Hero was a light-framed chestnut gelding with a white
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on 30 March, Easter Hero, carrying 173 pounds, started the
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and in 1929 he won his first Cheltenham Gold Cup by twenty
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Immediately after the race, Cullinan said of his horse:
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fourth favourite in a field of forty-two runners for the
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Pedigree of Easter Hero (IRE), chestnut gelding, 1920
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winner Maguelonne. Whitney sent him to be trained by
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Marcovil
Gelding
Republic of Ireland
Chestnut
Alfred Loewenstein
Jock Whitney
Jack Anthony
Becher Chase
Coventry Chase
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Grand National
Becher Chase
Coventry Chase
Alfred Loewenstein
John Hay Whitney
lengths
plate
blaze
hands high
Curragha
Ashbourne, County Meath
Easter Rising
on the flat
National Hunt
Prince Regent
Reynoldstown
Gregalach
Royal Mail

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