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Featured Festival
Cheltenham Festival
With a capacity for 67,500 spectators each day and some 230,000 spectators over the 4 days of the Cheltenham Festival, estimated gate receipts total around £7 million. Gold Cup Day is especially popular with the Irish who cross the water to attend Cheltenham Festival in their thousands. The famous rivalry between British and Irish horses contributes to the atmosphere.
The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle meeting on the National Hunt calendar and vitally important to UK racing. £600 million will be wagered on racing during the Cheltenham Festival. Without Cheltenham, Jump Racing simply wouldn’t be the same. Betting on all 27 Cheltenham Festival races is followed by thousands of racing enthusiasts. The volume of bets wagered during the Festival is staggering, with millions of pounds changing hands between bookmakers and punters on every race.
Experience for yourself the roar of the crowd on Champion Day with the Champion Hurdle, the glamour of Ladies’ Day and the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the ‘craic’ of St Patrick’s Thursday and the incredible finale of the big feature race on Day 4 of the Cheltenham Festival; the Cheltenham Gold Cup. For The Open Saturday and over the four days of The Festival, Cheltenham operates three separate enclosures – Club, Tattersalls and Best Mate. Detailed below are the facilities that are available in the three different enclosures.
Santini can take Gold Cup
Steve Hughes provides his best bets for the final day of the Cheltenham Festival. The Gold Cup provides the...
Cheltenham Festival handicap pointers
Steve Hughes has two horses to look out for at the Festival Soviet Pimpernel A horse that has caught...
December 1 – Fairyhouse Winter Festival Day 2
Three Grade 1s are up for grabs on a packed day of racing at Fairyhouse and Gordon Elliott and...
Saturday at Goodwood and Galway – What’s on the menu
It is the final day of Glorious Goodwood and the penultimate day of the Galway Races in Ballybrit and...
Friday at Goodwood and Galway – What’s on the menu
Tony Martin picked off another big win by claiming the Galway Hurdle with Tudor City yesterday while at Glorious...
York Ebor Meeting Day One – What’s On
The Ebor Festival at York begins on the Knavesmire today and though there is no rematch between Crystal Ocean,...
Memories of York – Rodrigo and Lester
The traditional late August Ebor meeting from York is on this week, which always brings to mind a trip...
Cheltenham Festival handicap pointers
Steve Hughes has two horses to look out for at the Festival Soviet Pimpernel A horse that has caught...
December 1 – Fairyhouse Winter Festival Day 2
Three Grade 1s are up for grabs on a packed day of racing at Fairyhouse and Gordon Elliott and...
