article_snippet: Jonjo O’Neill has no doubts who Jonjo O’Neill will be shouting for if two particular horses are galloping clear to the final fence in Friday’s Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.
article_snippet: One, Irish-trained Carlingford Lough, owned by JP McManus, ridden by soon-to-retire 19-time champion jockey AP McCoy, will be carrying a hill of punters’ money and a mountain of sentimental support.
article_snippet: Trainer and ex-jockey Jonjo O'Neill pictured at Cheltenham Racecourse ahead of next week's Festival .
article_snippet: AP McCoyAP McCoy left) and ex-jockey Jonjo O'Neill pictured with Synchronised and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2012 .
article_snippet: O’Neill’s landlord and staunchest supporter, and AP McCoy AP McCoy long-time ally, who helped deliver both the 2012 Gold Cup on Synchronised and 2010
article_snippet: Grand National on Don’t Push It
article_snippet: The arduous climb to the finishing post was the scene of the two-time champion jockey’s 1980 Champion Hurdle win on Sea Pigeon and, even more memorably, the heart-stopping surge to the line on 1986 Gold Cup-winning mare Dawn Run.
article_snippet: I knew if JP had a runner AP would ride it.
article_snippet: O'Neil (left) pictured with John McManus after winning the Grand National .
article_snippet: While O’Neill is determined to deny McCoy (right) the big final Festival send-off the jockey is hoping for, that doesn’t mean O'Neil (left) is not desperate to provide O'Neil (left) with a winner despite the blow of one of their big hopes, last year’s World Hurdle winner
article_snippet: their have become more than just employer and employee and no one is better placed to assess McCoy (right) than O’Neill, a man who rode against a generation of former weighing room giants including Ron Barry, Dessie Hughes, John Francome, Peter Scudamore and Tommy Carberry.
article_snippet: Regular Festival observers have learned to set Regular Festival observers watch by O’Neill, who has only twice driven away from the last day without a winner since the turn of the century.
article_snippet: him is determined to deny McCoy the big final Festival send-off the jockey is hoping for .
article_snippet: Course specialist Johns Spirit in the Ryanair Chase and Taquin Du Seuil, winner of the JLT Novices’ Chase last season and possibly heading down the handicap route, both have claims and a Festival gamble on an O’Neill handicapper is almost obligatory.
article_snippet: If The trainer dashes the McCoy’s Gold run, party pooper might be more appropriate.
highlights_snippet: AP McCoy will be riding Carlingford Lough in the same race .
  
highlights_snippet: AP McCoy and O'neill are long-time allies but the trainer will be cheering for Holywell in the Gold Cup rather than the trainer old friend .