Racing: L'Antartique (13-2) won a dramatic renewal of the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham today as favourite Granit Jack suffered a fatal fall.
Liam Heard, substituting for the injured Ruby Walsh, had not asked the five-year-old market leader a question and was travelling ominously well when he came down two out.
But Graham Lee had bided his time through the early stages on Ferdy Murphy's seven-year-old - who had won at the Festival in March - and they clung on to win by a neck from the fast-finishing Il Duce.
Knowhere stayed on for third under a big weight, with Palarshan in fourth.
Lee said afterwards: "He's a proper horse isn't he? "They went very quick and he jumped superb - it's the best he's jumped. The boss said to me in the Jewson last year just to tough it out from the top of the hill.
"I wasn't really concerned when he started to freewheel down the hill and I got there too soon again.
"He's a tough horse. It's natural ability and he's got a lot of it."
Murphy added: "Everything's gone really well for him. He had a real top man on top and that's the important thing.
"Going to the top of the hill, I thought he was going to get trapped but he just sat on him and kept his cool.
"We'll probably go to the Lexus with him now. We actually had six or seven horses for this race and had to decide which to run.
"We could have kept Granit Jack out but we didn't think it would be sporting."
Granit Jack's trainer Paul Nicholls, who had earlier seen Willyanwoody fatally injured, said: "He was dead when we got there.
"He was jumping so well at that point and I don't even think it was a mistake. I'm a bit mystified, I think it must have been something to do with his landing."