The Latest Breaking News from the Cheltenham Festival

The Cheltenham Festival peaks with Friday’s Gold Cup, here’s everything you need to know

The Cheltenham Festival stands as the pinnacle of National Hunt racing, where excellence in training can mean the difference between triumph and disappointment. As we approach the 2025 renewal, the battle for the coveted Leading Trainer award promises to be another fascinating chapter in this jumps season.

Let’s set the scene: misty mornings, crowds chanting, hooves pounding turf. Every March, Cheltenham—a cozy town in England’s Cotswolds—becomes the epicenter of horse racing madness. The Cheltenham Festival isn’t just another race meeting—it’s the Super Bowl of jumps racing. Seriously, even casual fans clear their schedules for this. Why?

The Cheltenham Festival is the world's most prestigious jump horse racing meeting, easily bettering the Grand National meeting in terms of attracting top-tier horses. Held at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire, the Festival is the season's pinnacle. It is eagerly awaited by fans who travel long distances to witness the beloved…

The steeplechaser Shishkin, twice a winner at the Cheltenham Festival, has died after suffering a leg fracture

The idea of even a partial ban on Irish-trained runners in Britain is an affront to the basic principles of competition

Ahead of Cheltenham Festival 2024, we spoke to ITV Racing presenter Ed Chamberlin and got his thoughts on one of racing's most exciting annual events.

The Cheltenham Festival is "critical" for the image and health of British racing though in "many ways the racing fan is being priced out" of this week's showpiece, William Woodhams, CEO of Fitzdares bookmakers, told AFP.

The Irish trainer is expected to dominate at the Cheltenham Festival once again with the milestone of 100 winners firmly in his sights

As the countdown to the Cheltenham Festival intensifies, racing enthusiasts eagerly dissect the form, pedigree, and prospects of the favourites poised to grace the hallowed turf of Prestbury Park.

As the Cheltenham Festival looms closer, the excitement builds for some of the most thrilling spectacles in horse racing to take place at Prestbury Park.