Iconic Cheltenham Festival moments: The Thinker's 1987 Gold Cup in the snow
Twice early in its history the Cheltenham Gold Cup fell foul of the weather, both times in the 1930s.
The atrocious winter of 1962/63 abated just in time for Cheltenham to go ahead as normal that March but snow on the final day of the 1978 Festival resulted in that year's Gold Cup, won by Midnight Court, being postponed four weeks until…
