SPRINTER SACRE comes back to win the 2016 Queen Mother Champion Chase: 'The Horse of a lifetime'

Retirement rather than a resurgence looked more likely for Sprinter Sacre when heart problems and other health scares derailed him after a brilliant campaign back in 2013, including success in this same race.

But somehow trainer Nicky Henderson and his patient team nursed him back to form to recapture the two-mile chasing championship at the #CheltenhamFestival and send the racecourse into meltdown.

"It's been a long, long journey - those were two very, very grim years," Sprinter Sacre's trainer Nicky Henderson said afterwards.

"That was unbelievable. That was about dreams, wasn't it?"

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