Some of Jump racing’s most famous names attended Cheltenham Racecourse, as 100 winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup gathered to celebrate the race’s centenary. Although a race known as the Cheltenham Gold Cup had existed in the past as a three-mile Flat race in the 19th Century, its present status is very much down to […]
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In 2024 the National Hunt Chase at The Cheltenham Festival, will be run in honour of the late Maureen Mullins. Read about Maureen Mullins here. Maureen Mullins National Hunt Novices’ Chase (Grade 2) 3m 5f 200y – Facts & Figures BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Grade Two National Hunt Novices’ Chase is the oldest race run at
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The Grade Two National Hunt Chase, staged on Champion Day at The Cheltenham Festival 2024 (Tuesday 12th March), will be run in honour of the late Maureen Mullins. Mullins, who sadly passed away aged 94 on 14th February, was the matriarch of an outstanding Irish racing dynasty. Her late husband Paddy saddled half a dozen
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Horseracing fans are preparing for one of the most exciting periods of the year – a month which always generates massive interest in online betting circles. The March schedule is headlined by the 2024 Cheltenham Festival, which is the pinnacle of the National Hunt season in the United Kingdom and Ireland. With plenty of top-class
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Friday 14th March – Day 1 – saw a fabulous start to The Festival at Cheltenham, 2023. Reporting by Graham Clark, Nick Seddon, Catherine Austen & Andrew King (TV quotes by Lucy Elder). Photographs courtesy of Ian Yates www.eyewhy.co.uk Amateur Jockey Michael O’Sullivan and Owner-Trainer Barry Connell combine to land opening Sky Bet Supreme Novices’
By Nick Seddon The six-times champion Jump trainer Nicky Henderson opened the doors to his famous Seven Barrows yard in Lambourn to talk about his prospects for The Cheltenham Festival in 2023, which takes place Tuesday 14th March to Friday 17th March inclusive. With 72 Festival wins to his name, Henderson is the most successful
By Nick Seddon Trainer Dan Skelton has revealed that he’s keen to take a select team to this year’s Cheltenham Festival, which will be spearheaded by Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup contender Protektorat. Skelton has four Cheltenham Festival winners under his belt so far, with the most recent being Ch’tibello in the 2019 County Hurdle, and he
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Cheltenham Festival 2023: Willie Mullins’ Horses and Hopes By Nick Seddon No trainer in the history of The Cheltenham Festival has trained more winners at it than Willie Mullins. Tourist Attraction in the 1995 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle was the first of what now stands at a record 88 winners for the master of Closutton. In
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The Jockey Club has announced that formal dress codes have been (almost) scrapped at all of its 15 racecourses as part of a drive to make horseracing more “accessible and inclusive”. Instead of restricting racegoers from watching the action in certain enclosures based on what they are wearing, British racing’s largest commercial organisation and employer
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Dan Skelton is confident of seeing something ‘very positive’ on Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham (Saturday 28th January) from Protektorat, who he reports to be ‘flying around the place’ ahead of an intriguing clash with last season’s Randox Grand National hero Noble Yeats in the Grade Two Paddy Power Cotswold Chase. The Saints Des Saints
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