Cheltenham Races

Queen Mother Champion Chase is one of the more popular and high profile events held on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival. It’s seen as ‘one to watch’ and is a Grade 1 national hunt steeplechase race. The Queen Mum was known to be very fond of her racing of course and so there […]

As the name suggests, the Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase is run over 3 miles 6 furlongs and 67 yards on the Cross Country Course at Cheltenham. The race is open to horses aged five years and upwards, who must negotiate a twisting, turning course and thirty-two idiosyncratic obstacles, including banks, rails and ditches. The […]

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No surprises for guessing the leading trainer and leading jockey at the Festival in 2016; Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh once again carried all before them, as they’d done for the last three years running, with seven winners apiece during the four days. Mullins’ haul also helped Irish trainers to a final tally of 14 […]

The contest for leading trainer and leading jockey was over almost as soon as it had started, with Willie Mullins saddling three of the first four winners, all ridden by Ruby Walsh. Douvan, in the William Hill Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, Un De Sceaux, in the Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy, and Faugheen, in the Stan […]

In 2013, Ruby Walsh announced that his decade-long association with Paul Nicholls would end and, consequently, the Cheltenham Festival in 2014 was his first as stable jockey to Willie Mullins. Not that it made much difference, because the partnership were off the mark at the first time of asking – as they had been the […]