Some rumours emanating from the Irish shores suggested that the Irish would struggle to get more than four winners on the board this festival, so Irish eyes must be pleased to already have four on the board after day one with plenty of promise still to come this week. The Irish currently hold a lead of (4-2) over Britain, or England as I like to call them, and that could even be 5-1 if you wish to count Jonjo O’Neill as Irish.

The Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old and above novices. It is run over a distance of 2 miles 5 furlongs (4,225 metres) on the Old Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are ten hurdles to be jumped in the race.

The Arkle Challenge Trophy is run at Cheltenham racecourse as part of the Festival In March, it is a novice race for five year olds and above.
The race distance is two miles with twelve fences to be jumped on the old course.
This race will probably be one of the toughest the contenders have run, and [...]

Like the Guinness, Paddy Power’s betting on The Black Stuff is the original draught compared to other pale imitators. Once again Paddy Power are betting on how many pints of Guinness are drunk at the four day Festival. Will the credit crunch quench punters’ thirsts or will they ride above the doom and gloom and celebrate in their usual style?

The David Nicholson Hurdle named after the former great trainer himself, is a new race on the Festival calendar and was established last year. Last year’s winner and first winner of the race Whiteoak returns to do battle for trainer Donald McCain son of former National hero Ginger in the Mares showpiece.There has been talk [...]

We are roughly just 4 weeks from the festival and in this weeks Newsletter I’m giving you my views on this years Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup. I will be taking a look at all the horses remaining in the lists and I will give you my views on them individually. There are 28 horses left [...]

The World Hurdle is regarded as the feature race of Day 3 of the Festival. Some top quality horses have won this race in years gone by and non more so than Inglis Drever who sadly wont be in the line-up bidding to win a fourth World Hurdle, I don’t think it’ll be quite the [...]

The Champion Bumper is regarded as one of the big gambling races of the Festival. Typical for a good Irish gamble, and on most cases landed. Some classy horses have won this in the past.
Willie Mullins has a fantastic record in this race, and always primes a decent string for the event. Anything he sends [...]