The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is a Grade 1 steeplechase run over 3 miles and 80 yards on the Old Course at Cheltenham in March. Open to horses aged five years and upwards, it is one of three Grade 1 novice steeplechases run at the Cheltenham Festival – the others being the Arkle Challenge Trophy […]
Read MoreThe Turners Novices’ Chase is a Grade 1 novices’ steeplechase run over 2 miles, 3 furlongs and 168 yards on the New Course at Cheltenham in March. Open to horses aged five years and upwards, the race is currently scheduled as the first race on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival. It is, […]
Read MoreIn recent seasons, Nicky Henderson has been forced to play ‘second fiddle’ to Irish trainers Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott at the Cheltenham Festival, at least as far as the leading trainer award is concerned. However, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the ‘Master of Seven Barrows’, who saddled his first Festival winner in 1985, […]
Read MoreJockey Jamie Moore on the Cheltenham Festival.
Read MorePatrick ‘Pat’ Taaffe, who died at the age of 62 in 1992, after undergoing a heart transplant the previous year, will always be remembered as the man who rode Arkle, arguably the greatest steeplechaser of all time. At the Cheltenham Festival, Taaffe and Arkle won the RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase in 1963, followed by […]
Read MoreNicky Henderson: “It’s getting a bit ridiculous, really.” Nicholas John ‘Nicky’ Henderson is the most successful trainer in the history of the Cheltenham Festival with 51 victories, including the Champion Hurdle (three times), the World Hurdle (twice) and the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Having ridden 75 winners as an amateur jockey, Henderson began his training career […]
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