Talking Horses: Peter Beaumont hailed as among last of his kind


Tributes paid as Yorkshire trainer who won Cheltenham Gold Cup and three Irish Gold Cups dies aged 85

Peter Beaumont has been hailed as among of the last of his kind, following the Gold Cup-winning trainer’s death on Monday morning at the age of 85. Based near Brandsby in North Yorkshire, Beaumont was a quiet man who never sought the limelight and never had more than 30 horses under his care but had a fantastic eye for a long-distance steeplechaser and won some of the sport’s biggest prizes.

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