Cheltenham Festival 2022: Day one - Honeysuckle can retain Champion Hurdle crown
can successfully defend her crown in the Unibet Champion Hurdle (3.30pm), the feature on the opening day of the 2022 Cheltenham Festival.
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Tiger Roll hopes to enjoy victorious Cheltenham Festival farewell
Tiger Roll can bring the curtain down on an incredible career by raising the roof with a fourth win in the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase – and a sixth Cheltenham Festival win in all.
Sir Gerhard odds-on to beat eight rivals in Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle
Hot favourite Sir Gerhard is set to face eight rivals in the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Cheltenham Festival: Shishkin and Energumene set for Champion Chase battle
Shishkin and Energumene are on course for a mouth-watering rematch at Cheltenham on Wednesday with the pair among eight runners declared for the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase.
Cheltenham Festival 2022 tips for Champion Hurdle and Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
Jonbon can get the home team off to a flying start in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, the opening race of the Cheltenham Festival.
Cheltenham Festival: 'The lads who win in the sales ring usually win at the racetrack'
The casual observer could be forgiven for assuming National Hunt racing rolls into high gear no more than two or three times a year.
Nico de Boinville: ‘I used to bunk off public school to watch the racing’
When Nico de Boinville was at public boarding school in Berkshire, while Best Mate was winning three Gold Cups in succession at the Cheltenham Festival between 2002 and 2004, he bunked off classes in an early sign of his obsession with horse racing. “I definitely snuck out of a couple of lessons to watch Best Mate,” he says. “It was then that Cheltenham came on my radar, because before that I was massively into Flat racing.”
Honeysuckle heads ten chasing Champion Hurdle honours
Honeysuckle will face nine rivals as she defends her Unibet Champion Hurdle crown at the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday.