As parts of the world go into panic because of the latest Coronavirus epidemic, one large Spa town in the Cotswolds is running business as usual on its busiest week of the year. The population of Cheltenham and surrounding area’s max out at just past the 100,000 person mark, but for one week of the […]
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BREAKING NEWS! Altior is out!
The first news from the racecourse this morning is favorite Altior is out of the running for the Festival. He was set to run in tomorrow’s Queen Mother Champion Chase. Embed from Getty Images Trainer Nicky Henderson on Altior: “Sadly we’re going to have to call it a day for the Champion Chase. “It’s frustrating […]
League Against Cruel Sports campaign to make horse racing safer on the eve of Cheltenham Festival
With less than 24 hours to go before the biggest event of the jump race calendar kicks off, not everybody is excited for the four day event. League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) held an information event on Cheltenham High Street today. This was a peaceful campaign where volunteers of the organisation were handing out leaflets […]
Cheltenham Festival: Riders OnThe Storm to have toughest test
Riders OnThe Storm has won all three races since Nigel Twisten-Davies took over his training in November 2019. The horse heads to the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday in what is virtually a home event for Twisten-Davies. Riders OnThe Storm will make his debut in the Cheltenham Ryanair Chase on Thursday. Flashback 12 months and the […]
Revealed: The race horses most likely to fill your pockets at the Cheltenham Festival
A recent study has found that horses bred in Ireland, trained in Britain and ridden by an Irish jockey are more often than not the winners at the Cheltenham Festival. Each winner at the event since 2000 was looked at closely to see how they were bred, where they were trained and what type of […]
CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: Altior to race after a speedy recovery
For National Hunt racing fans, there is nothing quite like the Cheltenham Festival. We are just 24 hours away from the biggest racing events of the year and some of the favorites have been announced. Altior is going for the third consecutive win even though there are two younger and fitter horses in the running. […]
Cheltenham Festival WILL go ahead, despite coronavirus fears
The 2020 Cheltenham Festival will go ahead this year, despite health and safety concerns after the recent outbreak of COVID-19. Commonly known as coronavirus, the respiratory disease has spread rapidly in the UK in the last week and the first case in Cheltenham was confirmed on Sunday. Despite around 200,000 people coming to Cheltenham for […]
LIVE BLOG: Leicester City vs Aston Villa
Good evening and welcome to your Monday sports digest with just one day until the 2020 Cheltenham Festival. Fears have been raised over health and safety as the rapid increase in cases of COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, continues in the UK. Roughly 200,000 people come to Cheltenham over the course of the four days […]
Cheltenham Festival: Champion Hurdle Preview
UniBet Champion Hurdle. Tuesday 10th March. 13:30. Prize: £264,610 The Cheltenham Festival is just around the corner meaning that over a quarter of a million of punters will flock to the town over four days of racing. Throughout the week, around £6 million is set to be bet at the races with many other millions […]
The coronavirus at Cheltenham Festival
It is less than 48 hours until Cheltenham Festival 2020 gets underway and despite the potential threat of COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus, it has been given the go ahead. There are now over 200 confirmed cases of the virus in the UK and two others have died. However, officials are keen to […]