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Sir Alex Ferguson celebrated his first ever Cheltenham Festival win as Monmiral claimed victory in the Pertemps Network Final, today.
The legendary Manchester United manager was seen with a huge smile on his face moments after the win as the 25 to 1 shot came home ahead of Kyntara.
Ferguson followed that up with his favourite Teahupoo winning won the Stayers’ Hurdle to give trainer Gordon Elliott his first win of the week.
The seven-year-old held off the 2021 and 2022 winner Flooring Porter, with Home By The Lee in third.
Another former English football manager, Harry Redknapp, also had a first time winner.
Redknapp celebrated as Shakem Up’Arry found the scoresheet on a football-orientated day-three of the Cheltenham Festival.
Having watched his former managerial rival Sir Alex Ferguson notch a double earlier on the card, it was soon the turn of the former West Ham, Portsmouth and Tottenham boss to return to the Prestbury Park winner’s enclosure with his course specialist – who supplemented his New Year’s Day triumph here in great style.
Sent off at 8-1 for the TrustATrader Plate Handicap Chase, the Ben Pauling-trained 10-year-old travelled supremely in the hands of Ben Jones and having jumped the last already looking the winner, he stuck his head down and galloped all the way to the line.
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