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Right On Track: The Limitless Advantages of Betting A Horse Racing Show Online
Image Source: pixabay.com Today’s generation is undoubtedly a showcase of technology innovation in all given platforms. The birth and rise of technology have played an essential role in every mankind. A lot of people became glad because primarily technology has made our life easier. In line with the vast rise of technology comes the development…
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Cheltenham Gold Cup 2004
The 2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sponsored by Totesport, featured 10 runners, but was a one-sided contest, betting-wise, with Best Mate, trained by Henrietta Knight and ridden by Jim Culloty, sent off 8/11 favourite to become the first horse since Arkle, in 1966, to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup three times. French raider First Gold, trained…
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Cheltenham Gold Cup 2003
The 2003 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sponsored by the Tote, featured 15 runners and was a vintage renewal, with the crème de la crème of steeplechasing talent from northern Europe in opposition. Nevertheless, defending champion Best Mate, was sent off hot favourite, at 13/8, to become the first horse for 32 years to win the Cheltenham…
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Cheltenham Festival vs The Grand National – Festival thoughts
Royal Ascot of course has its fans, but in terms of the big races and festivals I find that the two that really stir interest in both serious and casual punters are the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National. They both clearly capture the attention of the betting public, and bookmakers are the first to look…
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Cheltenham Festival 2002
The 2002 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sponsored by the Tote, featured 18 runners – the biggest field since Silver Buck beat 21 rivals in 1982 – and was the first to be run for two years, after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth required the abandonment of the Cheltenham Festival in 2001. The defending champion, Looks Like Trouble,…
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Cheltenham Gold Cup 2001
As much as I’d like to write about the Cheltenham Gold Cup 2001, that could prove difficult as it didn’t happen, due to falling within the foot and mouth disease exclusion zone. The boundary of an infected area reached a mile from the course and so the Festival was called off. It’s the first time since World…
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Cheltenham Gold Cup 2000
The 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup, sponsored by the Tote, featured 12 runners and, on unseasonably fast ground, was won in a time of 6 minutes 30.3 seconds, marginally faster than the previous record set by shock 100/1 winner Norton’s Coin in 1990. Defending champion See More Business started 9/4 favourite to become the first horse…
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Cheltenham Festival 2017: Gordon Elliot Makes His Mark
For once, the Festival started poorly for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh, who were both winless after the first two days. However, four winners on Thursday, all trained by Mullins, were enough to give Ruby Walsh his fifth jockeys’ title in a row. Willie Mullins saddled two more winners on Friday, for a total of…
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St James’s Place Festival Hunters’ Chase
The St James’s Place Festival Hunters’ Chase is run over 3 miles 2½ furlongs on the New Course at Cheltenham and is open to horses aged five years and upwards. The race is run over the same course and distance as the Cheltenham Gold Cup and is currently scheduled as the sixth race on the…
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Triumph Hurdle
The Triumph Hurdle, currently sponsored by JCB, has been a fixture of the Cheltenham Festival since 1968. The Grade 1 contest, run over 2 miles and 179 yards on the New Course at Cheltenham, is exclusively contested by juvenile novice hurdlers and is the leading event of its kind in the British National Hunt calendar.…