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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
Dominant Lossiemouth a winner as Cheltenham puts civil war on hold
Insiders worry about how to grow racing as costs rise but JP McManus continues to find winners in his 50th year in the sport No sooner had Lossiemouth lifted the roof off Cheltenham with a staggeringly dominant Champion Hurdle victory than the skies around Prestbury Park also began to brighten too. The buildup to the festival had been dominated by talk of civil war, of feuding and internecine conflict. But this was a reminder of the sport’s simple pleasures. Horse and jockey. Fence and turf. Dra
Cheltenham festival day two: L’Eau Du Sud can edge Majborough in Champion Chase
Memories of Majborough’s poor Cheltenham display 12 months ago leave Dan Skelton’s refreshed grey a live contender at around 9-2 The key question before the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham on Wednesday is which version of Majborough will turn up. If it is the Majborough that powered 19 lengths clear of Marine Nationale, the Champion Chase winner last year but sadly absent this time, at Leopardstown in February, his likely price of around 5-6 will look like one of the bets of the meetin
Ladies Day returns to Cheltenham festival promising ‘glamour and glory’
Jockey Club says aim is to get more women watching racing and revival is not a response to ‘woke’ jibes First and foremost, it is a huge sporting event, billed by its fans as the Olympics of jump racing – but it can also act as a social barometer, giving clues as to the state and mood of the nation. This year’s Cheltenham festival, which began on Tuesday, feels a little like a step back in time with the return of “Ladies Day” after a five-year hiatus and a reduction in the price of a pint. Cont
How do you read a racecard in horse racing?
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains how to read a horse racing racecard and what all of the terms mean.
Sean Bowen: ‘I’m still a bit allergic to horses. It’s a funny thing to have as a jockey’
UK’s outstanding jumps rider is winless at the Cheltenham festival but says this could be his year, and explains the challenge of riding so many winners Sean Bowen can claim to be the best jockey in jumps racing by some distance. Next month he will be confirmed as champion jockey for the second successive year as, on 210 victories so far, he is 107 ahead of Harry Skelton, his closest rival. Bowen is already looking ahead to next season, where he harbours serious ambitions of becoming the first j
Harry's Horses
BBC Sport follows Harry Redknapp for an inside look at his passion for horse racing.