Remittance Man was a "narrow, short and wiry"[2] bay gelding with a small white star bred in Ireland by Martyn J McEnery.
[2] Remittance Man was the first and best horse owned by Tim Collins, who was one of the key figures who saved Cheltenham Racecourse from a takeover by property developers in 1963: as a reward, he was granted free entry to the course for life.
The racing colours of black jacket with yellow sleeves and red cap, belonged to Lord Bicester and were carried by Silver Fame who won the 1951 Cheltenham Gold Cup.
After finishing second to the Josh Gifford-trained Tom Troubador at Ascot Racecourse in November, he was moved up in class to contest the Bristol Novices' Hurdle over two and a half miles at Cheltenham on 8 December.
[8] Eleven days later he started 1/2 favourite for the Wayward Lad Novices' Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse and won "easily" by twelve lengths from the Cleeve Hurdle winner Calapaez.
[9] In the Galloway Braes Novices' Chase at Kempton on 23 February Remittance Man started the 100/30 third choice in the betting behind File Concord and Trefelyn Cone.
On his seasonal debut he started 1/4 favourite for a chase at Newbury and recorded his seventh consecutive win, beating his only rival, Golden Celtic, by more than thirty lengths.
With Dunwoody opting to ride the veteran Desert Orchid, Remittance Man was partnered by Jamie Osborne and started 3/1 favourite in a field which also included Nortons Coin and Toby Tobias (first and second in the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup) as well as the French six-year-old The Fellow.
On 11 March the gelding returned to the Cheltenham Festival and started even money favourite in a six-runner field for the 34th running of Britain's most prestigious two-mile steeplechase, the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
The outsider Star's Delight led in the early stages from Waterloo Boy, with Remittance Man settled in third by Osborne just ahead of Katabatic.
[15] Remittance Man began the 1992/1993 season over two miles five furlongs at Wincanton Racecourse on 22 October when he started 4/11 favourite for the Grade 2 Desert Orchid South West Pattern Chase.
[16] At Huntingdon a month later he started at odds of 1/5 for the Grade 2 Peterborough Chase and won for the twelfth time in thirteen races, beating Emsee-H by seven lengths after taking the lead approaching the second last.
[19] His victory was warmly received by the crowd and an emotional Henderson commented "I honestly expected him to get beaten today, but he has class, and there was no rustiness at all about his jumping... we now must keep our fingers crossed that he stays sound.
Despite returning lame after his fall at Cheltenham, Remittance Man started 9/4 joint favourite for the Melling Chase at Aintree three weeks later, but after several jumping errors he was virtually pulled up in the closing stages and came home last of the four finishers behind Katabatic.
Remittance Man made his final appearance on 1 December 1995 when he returned from a break of nineteen months to contest a handicap chase at Sandown Park Racecourse.