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Tue, 14/03/2023 - 18:13
There were joyous scenes on day one of the Cheltenham Festival when Honeysuckle brought the curtain down on her phenomenal career with an emotional victory in the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 18:03
AN emotional Rachael Blackmore remembered 13-year-old Jack de Bromhead after winning the Mares’ Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 15:07
Michael O’Sullivan produced an ice-cool ride aboard Marine Nationale to register a famous victory for trainer Barry Connell in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 14:12
The Cheltenham Festival’s return sees horse racing’s difficult relationship with animal welfare in the spotlight.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 12:45
Ashroe Diamond will head to Fairyhouse on Easter Sunday having been ruled out of the Jack De Bromhead Mares' Novices' Hurdle on Tuesday morning.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 12:45
Spectators at the Cheltenham Festival this year are expected to drink more than 200,000 pints of Guinness across four days of racing.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 11:46
The Champion Hurdle is the highlight from Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival. Some famous names have won it. Among them Istabraq and Hurricane Fly.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 10:30
Michael Jordan, incinerating the laws of gravity, up and declining to come down, somehow surfing high above the hardwood on barrel waves of air.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
He is the “people’s horse” set to take part in the purists’ race – but whether Hewick goes on to take his place in the Cheltenham Gold Cup this Friday will be all down to the gods in the end.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
They say the present is always guided by the past but no one could have predicted the dominance which Willie Mullins has on jumps racing having come from the humblest of beginnings.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
How did you get started in racing?
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
There will be no shortage of adrenaline coursing through every jockey’s body as they head down to the start for the Festival opener at Cheltenham, but none more so than Michael O’Sullivan.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
If you haven’t stood in the Cheltenham crowd in March and been surrounded by the roar that sends the Supreme Novices careering off toward the first flight of hurdles, then ask yourself, why?
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:30
Bookmakers are braced for a €500 million Cheltenham Festival bonanza as the biggest betting week of the year kicks off at the Cotswolds today.
Tue, 14/03/2023 - 03:00
Rarely has there been the excitement about a jumps horse that Constitution Hill has created.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 22:31
On the morning of the 1964 Gold Cup, ‘Capt Keen’ – writing in the Irish Independent – argued that a successful title defence from the English-trained Mill House would in itself be a cause for Irish celebration.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 21:07
It doesn’t happen too often but occasionally a really outstanding horse comes along and takes your breath away.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 20:03
Paul Townend has nominated Facile Vega as his best ride on day one of the Cheltenham Festival as the six-year-old bids to bounce back to his best in tomorrow's Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 19:58
Sean Flanagan hopes to scale heights at Cheltenham this week in more ways than one with the Irish jockey preparing to fly himself and fellow rider Donagh Meyler to the Festival.