Cheltenham Festival

History-making jockey Rachael Blackmore, who became the first female rider to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup last year, reveals she does not need to watch her ...

"I want to feel it going into next week because that, in turn, means I have got some very good rides next week. “But to actually achieve it last year and be lucky enough to say I have now won the race will be a feeling I will never forget.” “Finishing second in it the year before, you think that could be the closest you ever get to a win in the Gold Cup.

It has since emerged that, as Annie Power faced down the final flight in that year's mares' hurdle, with their head in their hands, the bookies were staring ...

The French bred horse was unlucky to be beaten by Billaway in Punchestown last year, and will rue a final fence mistake that day, though he looks a better horse again this time around. [LiveScoreBet.com](http://livescorebet.com/) for the latest Cheltenham odds. 18+ [Gamblingcare.ie](http://gamblingcare.ie/) #ad That was the perfect prep-run, and that's why Shiskin looks like a good thing for Thursday's Ryanair Chase. Back for another cross country chase this year, it's very hard to see Gigginstown-Gordon Elliott combo beaten. After two disappointing runs in a row, in Cheltenham last season and then in Sandown earlier this season, it's fair to say that the search parties were out, and they were out in force for the Shishkin of old.

'The Greatest Show on Turf' will see the Irish jockey target another Gold Cup, having triumphed 12 months ago in one of the finest moments of the calendar year ...

- Buzz 20/1 - Shishkin 20/1 - Hewick 20/1 - Bravemansgame 8/1 Registered users can watch online via ITVX. It just means that you are going to Cheltenham with some good rides.

Doneraile jockey impressed last weekend, including a victory on Indiana Jones.

He has all the attributes you’d associate with a stereotypical Hunter Chase winner and his trainer has probably got the best three hunter chasers in these islands just now. One horse I’m personally looking forward to at Cheltenham is Vauculet for Derrylin-based County Fermanagh trainer David Christie in the Hunters Chase on the final day of the Festival. He believes Shiskin would have had valid claims in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and he might have taken that route if he were in owner Joe Donnelly’s shoes.

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Here Telegraph Sport offers you a full guide to all seven of the races on day three. What time in the Stayers' Hurdle? The feature race of the day gets under ...

Early entries for this year's renewal show that the likes of Mr Incredible, Mahler Mission and Indigo Breeze will be the likely ones to watch. This race, better known as the Kim Muir, is an opportunity for amateur jockeys to bask in some Cheltenham glory. This is run on the New Course with 17 jumps to negotiate. The ante-post market is pretty open currently, so tough to see who will go off as favourite. Under Rachael Blackmore the nine year old is bidding for a hat-trick in the race. This race, first run in 2011, has been a good one for Mullins, with the famous trainer having four winners.

Last year's meeting brought further glory, with Honeysuckle successfully defending her Champion Hurdle crown and A Plus Tard giving him back-to-back Gold Cup ...

We plotted a different route this year, literally starting with the Gold Cup and working backwards. I know stats could be against him a bit, but he's in mighty form.' Last year's meeting brought further glory, with Honeysuckle successfully defending her Champion Hurdle crown and A Plus Tard giving him back-to-back Gold Cup wins under the record-breaking Rachael Blackmore. 'The season hasn't gone according to plan for him, in fairness,' De Bromhead admitted. but insists A Plus Tard is 'starting to show the right signs' He added: 'Every time you go there with him, you'd always be defending his form.

In a time where National Hunt Horses are selling for high six-figure sums, Hewick is hoping to be a rare rags-to-riches story. Trained by John 'Shark' Hanlon ...

“Maybe we shouldn’t be going for the Gold Cup, but when will we ever have a horse to run in a Gold Cup again? The owners wants to run in a Gold Cup, so why not bring him – isn’t he entitled to be there? It’d be a great story to win it with an €850 horse, wouldn’t it? It took him a bit of time, but he won one night in Kilbeggan and from that day to this he’s after being a real horse.” “It was mighty and to go back and win an Eclipse Award, I never dreamt we’d get that. Jack was a great kid and my chaps here were very fond of him. “I was quite emotional as a lot of things hit my head. “I actually went to look at another horse but he wasn’t there, so we came out of the bottom gate to come home and met him (Hewick) walking in. “It’s a great story and something you dream of. “Then she said ‘but you can get to Kilkenny in 15 minutes and it takes you two or three days to come home!’. Gordon went off and filled his car with drink, I went off filled mine with food and then we all joined together. They sent me an email to say he was in the last three and told me where it was, but they gave me no inkling that he’d won.

Only eight horses have won more than one Gold Cup, including Al Boum Photo, who defended the cup in 2020. While the winner from 2021, Minella Indo ...

- Shishkin 20/1 - Hewick 20/1 Registered users can watch online via ITVX.

The Cheltenham Festival is almost upon us, but you still might be wondering where to put your money Planet Sport has come up with a list of trainers whose ...

Top of that list would be Vor Por Ustedes' win in the 2007 Queen Mother Champion Chase. The master of Jackdaw's Castle, which is local to Prestbury Park, endured a Cheltenham Festival drought between 2016 and 2021. Although he has not managed to emulate that feat as a trainer, since taking out a licence in the late 1980s, John Joseph O'Neill has saddled 28 Cheltenham Festival winners. He was born in the year that Henderson took out a licence but has wasted no time in winning just about every big pot you can think of. So who should you follow? It's the nature of racing, isn't it…

Nothing grabs the attention of racing fans in Britain and Ireland like the Cheltenham Festival. The four-day event for jumps horses in Gloucestershire is ...

He seeks to put his name into history in the biggest race of the festival, the Cheltenham Gold Cup (G1). Last year, Commander Of Fleet took the Coral Cup (G3) at 50-1, while the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup for amateur jockeys went to 40-1 chance Chambard. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility for him to get the 12 wins he needs to reach the 100 mark. One of the main reasons Irish stables have dominated in recent years has been the strength of the Willie Mullins stable. As with the Breeders’ Cup, if you win a Grade 1 event at Cheltenham, you are 90 percent likely to be regarded as the champion horse in your division for the season. Nothing grabs the attention of racing fans in Britain and Ireland like the Cheltenham Festival.

Peter Scudamore expects Ahoy Senor to be competitive in next Fridays Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup as the finishing touches are put on his preparation.

We are very proud of him and hopeful." I think he is still learning his trade a little bit. He won't have made 10 at lunch time, he'll make 120 after lunch or be back in the pavilion.

BEING a jockey is a notoriously arduous profession for a host of reasons - not least of which is having to keep your weight in check.However, Rachael.

It is an extremely special place to ride a winner. “But to actually achieve it last year and be lucky enough to say I have now won the race will be a feeling I will never forget. "Finishing second in it the year before, you think that could be the closest you ever get to a win in the Gold Cup. "It’s the biggest race of the week and a race that every jockey would love to win. "It is pressure but it is, strangely, pressure that you crave and that you want. "I don’t know, everyone has different ways of managing it but you just have to be thankful that it is there and get on with it.”

Willie Mullins is showing no signs of taking his foot off the accelerator as he prepares what he ominously warns may be his strongest team yet for this ...

If not, we’ll just have to suck it up and prepare for the following year.” “When you’re in it you don’t think like that. “I don’t go back to my hotel on a night and open the champagne. “I do admire the jockeys. There’s 20 or 25 runners and every jockey thinks they have a chance, so the fighting for position for the first couple of furlongs is immense compared to your normal day-to-day racing. “Getting winners at Cheltenham is a relief,” he said.

Mullins has enjoyed two previous victories at the Cheltenham Festival, with both wins coming aboard the Gavin Cromwell-trained Flooring Porter in the Stayers' ...

He said: “I think our jockeys here close at 12pm and at 11.55am before the Dublin Racing Festival there were still a few blanks in a couple of races! Obviously Facile didn’t really turn up, but even if he had turned up my horse wasn’t stopping hitting the line and I think he’ll be able to give him a run for it in Cheltenham.” There’s plenty of other young lads who are trying to find that improvement themselves, so it’s no time to be sitting back and relaxing – you have to keep going forward.” Mullins said: “He gave Facile Vega a fright at Christmas and it was probably a race that didn’t work out for my horse. “I went to Leopardstown with 11 rides and picked up a spare, so I had 12 rides in the end, which is any jockey’s dream. Maybe he’s a horse that performs better later on the year and into the spring.” “I’m having a good season, but that is down to the good horses I’m riding. Mullins’ third and final DRF winner came on Il Etait Temps, who profited from the demise of another high-profile stablemate in Facile Vega. There is no better than Gavin Cromwell – when he has got the ammunition he is well able to hit the target. While I’m lucky to be part of Willie’s team, it’s fantastic to riding winners for Gavin as well as he is definitely an up-and-coming trainer in Ireland. My horse wasn’t stopping at the line and Paul never got onto my tail. But there is no chance of the teetotal jockey revelling in his success.