Father Du Berlais returns this year to defend his Stayers’ Hurdle crown – Getty Images/Harry Murphy The four-day Cheltenham Festival continues at a high pace this afternoon and there’s plenty to keep punters interested. When is day 3 of Cheltenham Festival? The meeting started on Tuesday and continues today (Thursday, March 14). Willie Mullins is … Read more
Father Du Berlais returns this year to defend his Stayers’ Hurdle crown – Getty Images/Harry Murphy The four-day Cheltenham Festival continues at a rapid pace tomorrow and there’s plenty to keep punters interested. When is day 3 of Cheltenham Festival? The meeting started on Tuesday and will continue tomorrow (Thursday, March 14). Willie Mullins is … Read more
Mr Vango went on to win the Devon National by 60 lengths – Tom Sandberg/PPAUK Cheltenham Festival day one LIVE! The Tuesday of the Cheltenham Festival is the most anticipated day on the jump racing calendar, as months of preparation and conjecture finally comes to a head. The big race of the day, the Champion … Read more
Lily Allen, Luke Evans and Jade Holland Cooper attend the Cheltenham Festival in style – Getty A sea of 10,000 baker’s boy hats float happily through the gates of Prestbury Park. It’s a scene you can only admire in Cheltenham – Tuesday is the first day of the festival, which feels particularly lively this year … Read more
Burrough Hill Lad with trainer Jenny Pitman – 1984 Gold Cup winners – Popper photo Jenny Pitman, the first female trainer to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, will be one of 100 remaining winners at a luncheon to mark the race’s 100th anniversary at the racecourse’s new Centenary Restaurant on Monday. Pitman has not attended … Read more
Constitution Hill has only been active nine times in 27 months – Reuters/Paul Childs Last year’s Champion Hurdle has been excluded from the Cheltenham Festival by his trainer Nicky Henderson. The unbeaten and defending Champion Hurdle hero performed poorly at Kempton Park last Tuesday, putting his participation in the showpiece meeting in serious doubt. A … Read more
Harry Cobden and his 550-acre family farm at Lydford-on-Fosse in Somerset – Adrian Sherratt for The Telegraph I knew forty years ago that three years of agricultural education would come in handy, but never imagined it would help Harry Cobden, ‘first the jockey, then the farmer’, to sort out a consignment of cattle recently from … Read more
L’Homme Presse is firmly back on track as a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup runner for Venetia Williams after the nine-year-old, making his first start in more than a year, beat Protektorat by two and a quarter lengths in the Fleur de Lys Chase at Lingfield. Galopin des Champs, the cheap favorite and last year’s winner, … Read more