All news by author: Jon Lees

The Willie Mullins-trained Galopin Des Champs won the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup for the second year, on the race’s 100th birthday, giving jockey Paul Townend a record-equalling fourth victory

The Jukebox Man led for every stride of the race except the last one when 33-1 shot Stella Street snatched victory in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle

Attendance for the first three days of the Festival has been 12,000 down on last year and nearly 50,000 below the 2022 numbers for one of the biggest race meetings in the world

Defending champion Galopin Des Champs, trained by Willie Mullins, is the hot favourite to complete the double under jockey Paul Townend

Former Tottenham and West Ham manager Harry Redknapp landed the Trustatrader Plate with Shakem Up'Arry after Sir Alex Ferguson won two races on Thursday

Elliott had seen rival Willie Mullins dominate the first two days until Teahupoo ended his drought in the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle after which veteran Paisley Park was retired

Stuart Andrew, who is responsible for gambling as Under-Secretary of State for Sport, spoke to Nick Luck on Racing TV over the introduction of affordability checks

The former Manchester United manager landed the Pertemps Final with Monmiral before Protektorat won the Ryanair Chase to give Sir Alex a brace of successes

Sir Gino, long-time favourite for Friday’s Triumph Hurdle, was the trainer’s last big hope of success at what has turned out to be a miserable meeting for the stable

Legendary former jockey Ruby Walsh has picked out a runner trained by his father Ted, among his Thursday selections at the Cheltenham Festival

Rachael Blackmore on Captain Guinness secured a shock win in the Queen Mother Champion Chase after 2-9 favourite El Fabiolo made a race-ending error

David Manasseh, co-founder of CAA Stellar football agency, was the joint-owner of one of the hottest favourites of the week, Ballyburn, who won the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle

The William Hill customer went through the card on the first day of the meeting at Cheltenham Festival after staking just £5 - and finished the opening event with an incredible jackpot

The racecourse has had to restrict parking to pre-booked vehicles only for the rest of the Festival with large parts of the enclosures “unusable”

Sean and Bernardine Mulryan celebrated victory in their colours with Lark In The Mornin in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle but a second runner Ose Partir was fatally injured

In the absence of defending champion Constitution Hill, State Man justified his odds-on status to capture the day-one feature under Paul Townend

Highland Hunter, an 11-year-old grey, had delivered an emotional victory when he won at Newbury ten days earlier under jockey Paddy Brennan, and was seen leading Keagan Kirkby's funeral procession on March 5

Having denied rumours of problems with his string ahead of the fixture, Nicky Henderson’s first runner of the meeting Jeriko de Reponet failed to finish in the opening Supreme Novices' Hurdle

Rachael Blackmore, Ruby Walsh and Sir A P McCoy joined a group of other legends of the saddle for a special celebration on the eve of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival

With so many short-priced favourites, there could be value among some of the lesser known horses at Cheltenham at huge odds in the betting. Here is a selection to consider from the first two days

With the Cheltenham Gold Cup celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, Blackmore’s 2020 has topped a Betfair poll of more than 1,000 sports fans

The legendary ex-jockey believes State Man can be the ‘first leg of a great double’ in the Unibet Champion Hurdle as he goes through Tuesday's fields

Tom Bellamy has suffered three successive narrow defeats on Paisley Park who will make his sixth appearance in the Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival

Ex-Love Islander Frankie Foster will be joined by Married At First Sight’s Sophie Brown and other stars of social media when he heads the RacedayTV team at the Cheltenham Festival

Willie Mullins, the all-time leading trainer at the Cheltenham Festival, needs six wins to reach his century but he is unlikely to have everything go his way