The final day of the Festival could hardly ask for a better curtain-raiser, with 13 promising hurdlers all carrying high hopes of carving their name on the Triumph Hurdle honours board.
It's the final day of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival and the Planet Sport panel of experts are back to take a final swing at the bookies for the five races ITV are showing on Friday, March 15.
Fresh from landing a tasty 25/1 winner with Monmiral on Thursday, our red-hot trends tipster Andrew of Fiosrach looks to round the week off with another tasty winner in this wide-open handicap hurdle.
The sponsor’s name might change from year to year, but the Festival Plate rarely fails to deliver a decent race, and this edition appears to be no exception, with 21 capable chasers due to line up.
One of the Festival’s top three chases behind the Gold Cup and the Champion Chase, the Ryanair is chock-full of quality chasers that should give Cheltenham race-goers a race to remember.
Traditionally one of the most competitive handicaps at the Festival, the Pertemps Final Hurdle gives trends analysts Andrew of Fiosrach plenty of food for thought as he shares his best bet of the day.
The Irish will bring high hopes to Cheltenham on unofficial St Patrick’s Day, kicking off with what should be a thrilling Turners Novices’ Chase to get day three up and running.
Fact To File maintained his huge reputation with a straightforward success in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase for Willie Mullins.
Ballyburn made impressively light work of the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival.
The Grade 1 action continues right up to the final race of day two, with the Champion Bumper often producing winners that go on to bigger and better things when they try their hand over obstacles.
The Festival’s opening day was dominated by Willie Mullins-trained short-priced favourites, and that trend looks set to continue on day two when Ballyburn lines up for the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle.
Twenty fences over an extended three miles stand between the six scheduled starters and a taste of Cheltenham glory in what is usually a competitive long-distance novices’ chase.
Lossiemouth cruised to victory in the Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
The Planet Sport panel of experts are back with more selections for the second day of ITV's Cheltenham Festival racing coverage on Wednesday, March 13. Can they land some more big winners?
State Man justified his short odds as he claimed victory in the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
Gaelic Warrior came out on top in the My Pension Expert Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices’ Chase, to get Willie Mullins off the mark on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.
Rachael Blackmore and Henry De Bromhead kicked off proceedings with a win as Slade Steel impressively won the Cheltenham Festival curtain raiser, the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
The fourth and final Grade 1 race on an action-packed opening day sees the best hurdling mares take centre stage, and few will forget Honeysuckle’s emotional win in her farewell race 12 months ago.
The Cheltenham Festival 2024 has finally arrived and the Planet Sport panel of experts have pulled together some cracking selections for the first day of ITV's racing coverage on Tuesday, March 12.
Named after the legendary three-time winner of the Gold Cup in the sixties, the Arkle Trophy is the season’s pinnacle event for National Hunt’s top chasers over the minimum two-mile distance.
The dozen runners that line up for the Supreme Hurdle will be sent off to the sound of the “Cheltenham Roar” that traditionally accompanies the Festival’s eagerly anticipated curtain-raiser.
Willie Mullins and Paul Townend enjoyed a near perfect warm-up for the Cheltenham Festival after signing off on home soil with a Sunday treble at Naas.
Nine of the 15 horses confirmed for the opening Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday will be trained by Willie Mullins, including the favourite Ballyburn.
The Cheltenham Festival is racing’s Olympics, but fortunately we don’t have to wait four years for it. Planet Sport delivers our guide to the big races, trainers, jockeys and more in 2024.
