Graham Buddry remembers the spring-heeled chaser
Graham Buddry

Anyone who saw it remembers Fondmort’s incredible leap at the last fence in the Tripleprint Gold Cup at Cheltenham on 14 December 2002, when he soared over that final obstacle so well you could have driven the proverbial bus across the top of the fence and still not brushed his undersides, but there was far more to him than that.
Fondmort was French bred by Cyborg, a sire also responsible for the likes of Hors La Loi III, Cyborgo and Cyfor Malta among others, who, after winning in his native land was bought by Bill ...