The David Nicholson Mares Hurdle is a Grade 2 event run over two and a half miles, and has been run now for four years, and has been dominated by Quevega winning the last three. Over the last three years the race has been won by the superstar racemare Quevega and trainer Willie Mullins will be sending her try and complete a historic four-timer in the race, named after the legendary David Nicholson, who rode 5 winners and trained 17 more in a fantastic career. Nicholson trained some of the fantastic festival favourites...

The third race on Thursday will be the eighth renewal of the Ryan Air Chase and the fifth renewal since it gained Grade 1 status. The race is open to horses aged five and above, run over two miles five furlongs, on the Cheltenham New Course, with a total of seventeen fences to be jumped. The race was won last year by the Jonjo O’Neill trained Albertas Run, under a fine ride by AP McCoy, winning at odds of 6-1, successfully defending his crown having won the race the previous year. It looks like Albertas Run will be coming...

Some fairly decent previous winners of the JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial in years gone by and one horse will be looking to add their name to the likes of multiple grade 1 hurdler winner Al Eile, Triumph Hurdle and Champion Hurdle winner Katchit, and multiple grade 2 hurdle winner Fair Along. Quite whether any of them will live up to the likes of those three remain to be seen, but we can only judge them on what we have seen thus far.The race goes at (1:20) and opens the second day of Cheltenham’s ‘Open Meeting’, and from what...

I know this is a week away, and we still have some decent racing this weekend to get through but I was browsing through the form earlier and was interested in one at decent odds. The Paddy Power Gold Cup is without doubt the highlight of Cheltenham’s Open meeting, which this year, runs from Friday 11th November to Sunday 13th November. Run just a shade over two and a half miles (2m4.5f), it is a premier handicap chase which over the last few years has attracted some of the very best staying chasers around. The likes of the ill-fated...

Good Morning, The time is now 11:25am on the morning of Day 4 (and final day) of the Cheltenham Festival. This is our last competition for the Cheltenham Festival 2011, and because of that we’re making it our best one yet. Same rules as the others apply, however we are now making a slight change to the applicants. We are opening Competition #1 to new account holders at William Hill only. This means you will need to open a new William Hill account through our banners below (you get a £25 free bet for doing it too) and send...

Good Morning, The time is now 10:20am on the morning of Day 3 of the Cheltenham Festival. You will be asked to answer three questions by leaving a comment in the reply box below. All comments will be left as moderated until the close of the competition (6pm each day) and then two winners will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. We can track IP addresses to strictly only one entry per household, and finally the very best of luck for the week ahead and thank you for spending it with Cheltenhamtips.co.uk! Competition...

Good Morning, The time is now 10:20am on the morning of Day 2 of the Cheltenham Festival. We are going to be running competitions on each day of the Festival where you will be asked to answer three questions by leaving a comment in the reply box below. All comments will be left as moderated until the close of the competition (6pm each day) and then two winners will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. We can track IP addresses to strictly only one entry per household, and finally the very best of luck for the week...

Good Morning, The time is now 10:25am on the morning of Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival. We are going to be running competitions on each day of the Festival where you will be asked to answer three questions by leaving a comment in the reply box below. All comments will be left as moderated until the close of the competition (6pm each day) and then two winners will be selected at random by drawing names from a hat. We can track IP addresses to strictly only one entry per household, and finally the very best of luck for the week...

The Queen Mother Champion Chase is a championship race run over two-miles for five-year-old chasers and above at Grade 1 level. The race itself is the feature on the second day of the Festival (Wednesday) and is always filled with high quality entrants. Traditionally the field sizes for this race are smaller than some of the other big Festival races; however what we lack in quantity is made up for in quality, as the very best two-mile chasers do battle over the larger fences at break neck speed – a thrilling spectacle for the racing...

As the hours tick by the greatest show on turf edges ever closer. The 2011 Cheltenham festival is nearly upon us and from an Irish perspective there has been a rather low key build up this year’s festival. It may be reflective of the state of our country is in at the moment that we are not shouting from the rooftops about our chances at Cheltenham this year. Indeed the first day could be the best one for the Irish. All eyes will be on Hurricane Fly to see if he can supplement our good recent record in the Smurfit Kappa Champion...