Teeton Mill and Hors La Loi dead

Two giants of the National Hunt game in recent decades have died. Winner of the Hennessy and the King George VI Chase in 1998, Teeton Mill was first trained by Caroline Bailey and then by Venetia Williams. The grey started out hunter chasing before graduating to chases in the 1998/99 season. A son of Neltino, Teeton Mill headed to Ascot after his Newbury and Kempton successes and won another Grade 1 in the Ascot Chase in February 1999, One of the brighter prospects for the Cheltenham Gold Cup that year, sadly his career ended in the race when suffering a serious injury. He was 25 this year. The much-travelled Hors La Loi, winner of the Champion Hurdle in 2002, has died at the age of 19. The talented but enigmatic French-bred was trained by James Fanshawe when landing the top prize but started off with Francois Doumen, winning as a juvenile for him at Lingfield and Cheltenham before being sold to Jersey-based owner Paul Green, who sent him to Martin Pipe.