The Cheltenham Festival gets underway later today, with tens of thousands of racegoers again set to flood Prestbury Park for Jumps racing’s biggest meeting.
There will be a poignant start to the meeting, with the traditional Festival opener this year renamed as the Michael O’Sullivan Supreme Novices’s Hurdle in memory of the young jockey who won the race two years ago but tragically died following a fall at Thurles last month.
