Robert ‘Chocolate’ Thornton proved
the jockey to follow at the Festival in 2007. His four winners – My
Way De Solzen in the Irish Independent Arkle Chase, Voy Por Ustedes
in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, Katchit in the JCB Triumph Hurdle
and Andreas in the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase – were
sufficient to make him leading jockey for the one and only time.
Aside from Andreas, Paul Nicholls
saddled Denman in the Royal & SunAlliance Chase, Taranis in the
Ryanair Chase and Kauto Star in the Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup to
become leading trainer for the second year running and the fourth
time in all.
Other notable winners included
Sublimity in the Champion Hurdle, Cork All Star in the Weatherbys
Champion Bumper and Inglis Drever in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle.
Drombeag, in the Christies Foxhunter Chase, provided a first Festival
winning for leading Irish amateur rider John Thomas ‘J.T.’
McNamara, who was paralysed after a fall at the Festival six years
later and died in 2016 at the age of just 41.
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