Age - 10
career earnings - £2,012,654
Owner - Clive Smith
Trainer - Paul Nicholls
Jockey - Ruby Walsh
Kauto Star has won 20 of his 33 racecourse starts, 13 of which have been Grade One contests. The ten-year-old is a dual
Cheltenham Gold Cup winner and is a short price favourite to complete a hat-trick of wins in the famous race at this year's
Cheltenham Festival in March.
Kauto Star's biggest rival at the Festival is his stablemate Denman. Denman and Kauto Star have clashed twice in Cheltenham
Gold Cups and the score is currently 1-1. However, after his stunning 36 length demolition job in the King George VI Chase at
Kempton on Boxing Day, Clive Smith's gelding is now a warm order to repeat last year's scintilating Gold Cup win and once
again prove too strong for Denman.
Winning back the 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup made him the first horse to regain jump racing's
greatest and most prestigious prize.