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| Cheltenham Festival 16th - 18th March 2004 |
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Best Mate rides into history |
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Best Mate joined racing's greats today when he clung on to win an exciting Cheltenham Gold Cup for the third successive year. Henrietta Knight's brilliant nine-year-old emulated the feat of the legendary Arkle - but he had to dig very deep to hold off Sir Rembrandt and Harbour Pilot. Best Mate, trained by Henrietta Knight and ridden by Jim Culloty, hit the front approaching the final fence and held on up the hill to justify odds of 8-11. |
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Latest News |
| Iris's Gift holds off the challenge of two-time winner Baracouda to win the Bonusprint Stayers' Hurdle. Paul Nicholls regained the lead in the trainers' championship with a 599-1 treble on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival. Made In Japan (20-1) landed the JCB Triumph Hurdle in gritty fashion on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival. | |
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Final Festival Entries Announced |
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Entries for all 20 races at the 2004 National Hunt Festival have now been revealed following the publication of the horses engaged in the National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup, Weatherbys Champion Bumper, Christie's Foxhunter Chase and Cathcart Chase Challenge Cup. |
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Weights for Handicap entries |
| Betting on the seven famous handicaps at this year’s National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham on Tuesday to Thursday, March 16 to 18, looks set to hot up after the recent publication of the weights. | |
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racingbetter information |
| Tips, information and sound advice from professional gambler and multi-millionaire Colin Davey that will hopefully tip the odds in your favour when backing racehorses in the UK. | |
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Cheltenham Racecourse |
| For three extraordinary days in the middle of March the National Hunt racing community from all around the world converges on the elegant spa town of Cheltenham. The twenty races are the most hotly contested of the entire racing calendar with more than £2 million in prize money and £20 million in bets riding on these Championships. | |
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Martin Pipe at Cheltenham |
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Following two victories at last year’s (2003) National Hunt
Festival, the record-breaking Martin Pipe is just 10 victories
behind the late Fulke Walwyn in the list of most successful trainers
at jump racing’s biggest event. |
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Tony McCoy out in front |
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Tony McCoy, with 14 wins to date, is the most successful current
jockey at the National Hunt Festival. Since partnering Kibreet
to success in the 1996 Grand Annual Chase, the record-breaking
rider has gone on to land a further 13 successes, with his two
greatest triumphs coming in 1997 when he partnered Mr Mulligan
to land the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup and took the Smurfit Champion
Hurdle aboard Make A Stand. |
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