The former Cheltenham Gold Cup wined horse, Imperial Call, in the 1996 became the first Irish trained wined since Dawn Run a full decade before that. He was the four-time Grande One winner who was trained by the mighty Fergie Sutherland, and was the horse of ConorO’Dwyer in Rough Quest by four victories. According to Conor it was the horse who won in for Sports Betting him on his 30 years of age. He will never forget what the Imperial Call did for him.
Imperial Call won 16 out of 32 races and has made a profit of 414,633 pounds in prize-money. BBC Commented on this event with the following words: “Imperial Call, who won in such emphatic style that a repeat was immediately tipped, was hugely significant for Irish racing as in 1996 they were itching for another Gold Cup success 10 years after the victory of the iconic Dawn Run. Imperial Call also introduced to a wider audience his colourful trainer Fergie Sutherland – who died in 2012 – a British-born, Co.
Cork-based ex-army officer who’d lost a leg during the Korean War.