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This is the rollercoaster story of a great love, between racehorse trainer, Henrietta Knight and her husband, Terry Biddlecombe. It is a story of triumph and tragedy in equal measures, as together they trained the great Best Mate to win three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups, before the horse's shocking death in 2005 and Terry's in 2014. Henrietta and Terry were an unusual pairing: she a bluestocking biology teacher, he a hell-raising ex-champion jockey, with alcoholism and two failed marriages behind him. After Terry died, Best Mate's owner said, 'They were known as the odd couple, but in actual fact there was nothing odd about them at all. They were simply madly in love with each other.' Now, for the first time, Henrietta tells not only their story, but the story of Best Mate's tragic death, which changed their lives forever.
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Terry was a 'Best Mate'
\"He came to my party for my 4,000th winner and Henrietta said that was the last time he was out. I've been very friendly with him since and it's sad, but he lived a great life, that's for sure.\" \" The jockey who rode Best Mate to all three Gold Cup victories Jim Culloty, now a successful trainer in the Republic, said: \"I met him about a month ago and we had dinner together. Physically he obviously wasn't great, but mentally he was in great form, as usual.
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AP_McCoy Very sad news that former champion jockey and the legend that was Terry Biddlecombe has passed away, thoughts with Hen and his family.
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You bet, 'bankers' cannot be trusted
\"Jumping people, they just love the game, don't they?\" says Jonjo O'Neill, as the rider of Dawn Run a man forever associated with one of the iconic Cheltenham moments. \"It's just a fantastic atmosphere, a magical place. It'll take your mind off losing all your money -- off everything. As long as I'm around, I hope I can make it.\" By frequently delivering, but as often proving fraudulent, \"the Cheltenham banker\" long ago taught caution to investors who might otherwise have been vulnerable to the merchant or corporate variety. The Cheltenham banker is the horse identified by punters as the bedrock of their week, one that can be backed at short odds, without flinching. Some of the Festival greats -- like the multiple champion hurdlers, Istabraq or See You Then -- became so cherished largely because of their dependability as \"bankers\". Hen and [Terry Biddlecombe] are back today with one of the favourites for the Irish Independent Arkle Trophy in Calgary Bay. \"There have been changes over the years, but the atmosphere remains the same,\" Terry says. \"This time people might be skint before they start, but it won't stop them coming.\"
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RACING: Jewels glint amid cold mud of Irish fields
Few noticed Classified here in 2000 as he negotiated the tufty farmer's fields over a track a mile round, almost always featuring two and a half circuits with 14 fences. Then he moved on and up. Classified's winning run as a novice hurdler for Martin Pipe was halted only when he ran behind Galileo in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Last year, Classified was fourth to Baracouda in the Stayers' Hurdle. Hen and [Terry Biddlecombe] like Irish points and in particular the one at Lismore, perhaps the nation's foremost proving ground, 20 minutes south-east of here. It was a February day in 1999 in the grounds of Lismore Castle, on the banks of the Blackwater, and you could have called it typically Irish, wet and dreary, if you were not afraid someone was looking over your shoulder at what passes for the international press centre at Kildorrery.
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RACING: THE CHELTENHAM VERDICT: The Observers post-Cheltenham Festival diary
The expletives were courtesy of Terry Biddlecombe, husband of Gold Cup favourite Best Mate's trainer Henrietta Knight. The former jockey (pictured left with winning rider Jim Culloty) was describing an acquaintance of his wife's who was planning a visit to the Festival this year. 'He won't be staying here,' were Biddlecombe's final words on the person whose name we are not at liberty to reveal but who is one of the most famous faces in National Hunt history. BEST MATE IS a great Gold Cup winner but his achievements so far still pale next to the legendary Arkle, who was so much better than his contemporaries that racing's rules were altered to give them a chance. Arkle ran regularly in handicaps - he carried 35lb more than Stalbridge Colonist who beat him half a length in the 1966 Hennessy Gold Cup - and the winner went on to run a close second in the following year's Cheltenham Gold Cup.
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HORSE RACING: MY MATE WILL COOK THE BEEF ; Longer trip will be Irish ace's downfall says Biddlecombe
Although his wife holds the licence, the set-up is very much on a equal footing as [Terry Biddlecombe], less than delicately, puts it: \"We're a partnership - an assistant doesn't sleep with the trainer! Biddlecombe has tasted success in and out of the saddle in the Gold Cup, having also ridden 100-8 chance Woodland Venture to victory for Fred Rimell in 1967. During his career as a top notch National Hunt pilot, Biddlecombe rode 908 winners between 1958 and his retirement from the saddle in 1974.
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Driving rain eases Cheltenham ground
The former champion jockey, whose wife Henrietta Knight trains Best Mate, declared the ground on the New Course, where Thursday's big race will be run, to be riding better than on the Old Course.
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'Flying machine' is taken to land the leading prize at Sandown
Around 35 minutes later, it is interesting to note that Len Lungo has decided to send Mirjan trundling south from his border base to Sandown in the hope of winning the listed hurdle event. Mirjan likes to be the dominant force in the partnership between man and mount, but Tony Dobbin is expected to employ strong tactics this afternoon, and Mirjan is tentatively taken to go in. It is common knowledge that the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham in March is the event at which Edredon Bleu is being primed and prepared, but there are a few races along the way which carry esteem as well as wads of the folding stuff which can be scooped up along the way. The Tingle Creek Chase at San-down this afternoon is a case in point, and although it is anticipated that Edredon Bleu will prove triumphant, success may only come his way following a struggle such as he has not faced for some time.
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DIARY: FORMER champion jockey Terry Biddlecombe nearly passed the finishing...
'Thank God he wasn't inside,' his wife, racehorse trainer Henrietta Knight, tells me.
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