‘I was just too young to appreciate it’: Adrian Maguire recalls Gold Cup win

Adrian Maguire’s alarm will go off at 4.45am on Friday morning and he will be on the road from his home near Mallow at 5.20am.
An hour’s drive gets him to Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable near Cashel. It leaves plenty of time to reflect on the afternoon’s Cheltenham Gold Cup and another one from 30 years ago.
The 1992 Gold Cup was a new experience for a then 20-year-old riding sensation acclaimed as jump racing’s next champion jockey. Maguire’s mount, Cool Ground, was a 25-1 outsider in a race dominated by expectations about the giant Carvill’s Hill.
Ultimately, those expectations famously crumbled and the youngster from Meath picked up the pieces, all but lifting Cool G …

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