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Cheltenham Festival-Top Steeplechase Race
The Cheltenham Festival is the highlight of the National Hunt racing season in the UK and takes place in March every year. The best horses from Britain and Ireland compete over four days for championship races over a variety of distances.
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The highlight of the week is the Cheltenham Gold Cup on the closing Friday, the Blue Riband event of the steeplechasing year.
Cheltenham Festival-Top Steeplechase Race
The Cheltenham Festival is the highlight of the National Hunt racing season in the UK. It takes place in March every year in the Cheltenham racecourse. The best horses from Britain and Ireland compete over four days for championship races over a variety of distances. The highlight of the week is the Cheltenham Gold Cup on the closing Friday, the Blue Riband event of the steeplechasing year.
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The other feature races of the week are The Champion Hurdle, The Queen Mother Champion Chase and The World Hurdle. Total prize money exceeds £4 million during Cheltenham Festival week with hundreds of millions of pounds being wagered. The start of the first race on the opening day is greeted by the famous “Cheltenham roar” as the huge crowd cheers the runners on their way.
You can also check out The Grand National jump horse race in April.
Cheltenham Festival 2018 Results
Buveur D’Air provided another winning performance of the Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Festival. He beat Melon and Mick Jazz respectively.
Day 2 went to Ireland again as Altior raced ahead of Min and God’s Own.
Townend rode a magnificent race to win the Stayers’ Hurdle on day 3 with Supasundae and Wholestone trailing behind.
The highlight of the week was the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, which was won by Native River after finishing 3rd in 2017.
Champion Hurdle result 2018
1st Buveur D’Air 8-15, 2nd Melon 16-1, 3rd Mick Jazz 33-1
Queen Mother Champion Chase result 2018
1st Altior 11-10, 2nd Min 7-2, 3rd God’s Own 50-1
Stayers’ Hurdle result 2018
1st Penhill 9-1, 2nd Supasundae 11-2, 3rd Wholestone 14-1
Cheltenham Gold Cup result 2018
1st Native River 9-2, 2nd Might Bite 10-3, 3rd Anibale Fly 28-1
Cheltenham Race course
The first race meeting in Cheltenham was for flat racing and took place on Nottingham Hill in 1815. Three years’ later, the first races took place on Cleeve Hill.
Over the course of the next ten years, the popularity of racing at Cheltenham grew rapidly with crowds of 30,000 attending the annual two-day July meeting. The feature race was a three-mile race on the flat called the Gold Cup, a forerunner of today’s Cheltenham Gold Cup. The racecourse moved to Prestbury Park in 1831 and steeplechasing began at Cheltenham Racecourse 67 years later.
Cheltenham Racecourse has two separate tracks that run alongside each other, the Old Course and the New Course. The New Course is notable for its awkward downhill fence that is often known to change the outcome of a race. It also has a longer run-in for chases than the Old Course.
Cheltenham Racecourse opened its new, five and a half storey grandstand, the Princess Royal Stand. It oponed on the first day of The Open, Friday 13th November 2015, on time and on budget. The grandstand is the final part of a £45 million redevelopment of the course.
There are around 700,000 visitors to the Cheltenham racecourse during the year. The festival meeting is estimated to boost the local economy by as much as £50m.
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