article_snippet: Few  would be surprised if Trainer Noel Meade love affair with the Cheltenham Festival had turned sour and Trainer Noel Meade had filed for divorce long ago.
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade may have lost Trainer Noel Meade place as shortest-priced Irish contender – that now is well-backed Willie Mullins-trained Djakadam - but Trainer Noel Meade's hope is arguably the form horse from across the water.
article_snippet: Back then Trainer Noel Meade was a promising gelding beginning to bounce back from a disappointing slump thanks to a change in Trainer Noel Meade diet and work routine.
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade only defeat since – behind Sizing Europe over two and a half miles at Gowran Park in October – came in a race that had not been on Trainer Noel Meade original schedule and was a mistaken afterthought.
article_snippet: When the gelding, owned by Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary, landed the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas, defeating 2014 Gold Cup runner-up On Trainer Noel Meade Own and AP McCoy's Gold Cup mount Carlingford Lough, hopes were raised that Trainer Noel Meade might finally secure the feature Festival prize Trainer Noel Meade craves.
article_snippet: Meade, the seven-time Irish champion trainer who started training in 1970, saddled Harbour Pilot to twice finish third in the Gold Cup behind Best Mate.
article_snippet: It looked done and dusted until, in a dramatic final 50 yards, the rallying reigning champion trained by the late Dessie Hughes got the rallying reigning champion trained by the late Dessie Hughes head back in front.
article_snippet: Meade-trained Harbour Pilot (right) twice finished third behind Best Mate in the Gold Cup .
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade was going to win and then didn't.
article_snippet: I was watching with Dessie and Trainer Noel Meade was nearly congratulating me.
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade had Trainer Noel Meade hand on my shoulder
article_snippet: Martin came over and said I am sure you have won but, luckily, Richard Dunwoody had ridden mine and said Richard Dunwoody thought Hill Society were beat.
article_snippet: The disappointments meant Trainer Noel Meade became used to a familiar refrain before each Festival.
article_snippet: The trainer said: 'The same thing would start. '
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade has never had a winner' and at Cheltenham previews some fella in the audience would start getting on to you.
article_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade finally scored a Cheltenham winner with Sausalito Bay's victory in the 2000 Novice's Hurdle .
article_snippet: When Sausalito Bay's finally cracked the Festival for Trainer Noel Meade, Trainer Noel Meade knelt down and kissed the turf in the winner's enclosure that had eluded Trainer Noel Meade .
article_snippet: It is where Trainer Noel Meade would love to be again and the trainer, who was hit hard by the recession, seeing Trainer Noel Meade string half in number from a high of 150 horses, reckons Trainer Noel Meade is bringing one of Trainer Noel Meade strongest ever teams.
highlights_snippet: Trainer Noel Meade has four Festival wins and many more defeats .
  