page_title: Bobs Worth
section_title: 2012/13 season
hierarchical_section_title: Bobs Worth / Racing career / 2012/13 season
caption_attribution_description: Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup. On display at BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2008 - winning jockey, Sam Thomas, rider of Denman
context_page_description: Bobs Worth is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He has won the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle in 2011, the RSA Chase in 2012 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2013 at the Cheltenham Festival, making him the first horse since Flyingbolt in the 1960s to win three different races at consecutive Cheltenham Festivals. In 2012, he also won the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury. Bobs Worth is trained by Nicky Henderson, owned by the Not Afraid Partnership.
context_section_description: Carrying 11 stone 6 pounds, Bobs Worth started as the favourite for the Hennessy Gold Cup. He won the race by three and a quarter lengths from Tidal Bay. After the win, he was immediately installed as the favourite for the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup, at about 5/1. He was scheduled to take part in the Argento Chase in January, but was withdrawn by trainer Nicky Henderson. He did however take part in a racecourse gallop with Binocular and Long Run in February.
  On 15 March, Bobs Worth started the 11/4 favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. He appeared unlikely to win after being hampered at the third last fence and was still eight lengths behind Long Run on the final turn. Geraghty, however, produced the horse with a strong run to take the lead approaching the final fence and Bobs Worth drew away from the field on the run-in to win by seven lengths from Sir Des Champs. His win took his career prize money earnings to £578,135 and made him the first horse since Flyingbolt in 1964-1966 to win three different races at the Cheltenham Festival in consecutive years.
caption: The Cheltenham Gold Cup, which Bobs Worth won in 2013
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