1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup
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The 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup was a horse race which took place at Cheltenham on Thursday March 14, 1996. It was the 69th running of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and it was won by Imperial Call. The winner was ridden by Conor O'Dwyer and trained by Fergie Sutherland. The pre-race favourite One Man finished sixth. There was one fatality in the race when Monsieur Le Cure ridden by Jason Titley took a heavy fall at the 6th fence breaking his neck.
Imperial Call was the first winner of the Gold Cup trained in Ireland since Dawn Run in 1986.
- Sponsor: Tote
- Winner's prize money: £131,156.00
- Going: Good
- Number of runners: 10
- Winner's time: 6m 42.4s