Regent returned to England for a second attempt at the Grand National for which he was assigned a weight of 175 pounds and again started favourite, this time at odds of 8/1. In a race run in atrocious conditions with heavy ground and thick fog Prince Regent finished fourth of the fifty-seven runners behind the 100/1 outsider Caughoo. He returned to Aintree in November 1947 and won the Becher Chase. In the 1948/49 season Rank brought Prince Regent to England for his final season. He won the Bibury Chase at Cheltenham in December but was retired after falling in a race at Lingfield Park in 1949. Assessment and honours In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Prince Regent a "great" Gold Cup winner and the tenth best steeplechaser trained in Britain or Ireland in the 20th century. They described his 1946 Grand National performance as one of the best in the race's history. Prince Regent's name is remembered in Prince Regent Avenue, a residential street in Cheltenham. Pedigree References 1935 racehorse births Racehorses bred in Ireland Racehorses trained in Ireland Thoroughbred family 5-f Godolphin Arabian sire line Cheltenham Gold Cup winners Cheltenham Festival winners National Hunt racehorses