Cheltenham festival 2026: Lossiemouth leaves rivals in wake to win Champion Hurdle – as it happened

Day one of the festival saw Lossiemouth dominate and Kargese win a cracking Arkle Novices’ Chase The first handicap at this year’s festival – promoted up the card after the Mares’ Hurdle moved to later in the week – is often the toughest nut to crack all week, as all bar one or two of the juveniles lining up will be making their handicap debut. That means, in turn – to no-one’s great surprise – that their trainers will have been doing all they can to show just enough form to get them into the ra