Cheltenham Races

The Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle is a Grade 2 hurdle race run over 2 miles and 179 yards at Cheltenham in March. As the name suggests, the race is restricted to young female horses aged four years and upwards who, prior to the start of the current season, have not won a race over […]

  The 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, […]

  In 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, […]

Jockey Jamie Moore on the Cheltenham Festival. 

  Patrick ‘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 […]