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Cheltenham Festival starts today with with more than 250,000 people expected to descend on the town. Locals say they are "sick" of seeing boozy revellers urinating in public after watching the horse racing

The Cheltenham Festival gets underway on Tuesday, with the Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy being the showpiece race of day one as Irish trainer Willie Mullins looks set to dominate

Jack Andrews and Thomas Costello are both 6ft 4in, and will tower over the rest of the jockeys, who average 5ft 2in. Jack made his debut last year but the horse failed to finish

The Princess of Wales may have had the best of intentions when she edited the charming Mother’s Day picture her husband took - but it only backfired, fuelling more speculation

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

Willie Mullins trains plenty of favourites for the 2024 Cheltenham Festival. State Man, Lossiemouth and El Fabiolo are among his leading fancies, while Nicky Henderson has one of the best British-trained chances with Sir Gino

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

Our man hopes to make a killing on day one with Colonel Mustard in the Champion Hurdle at massive odds and reckons Trelawne will go well in the Ultima

The prediction came after a supercomputer analysed data going back to 1990 - to reveal the top characteristics of a 'typical' race winner

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

ITV won't be airing one of its daytime shows for four days this week to accommodate Cheltenham Festival, though a host of its other shows are unaffected by the event

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

Michael Owen and Sir Alex Ferguson are both big fans of the Cheltenham Festival and will be watching the action this year. Owen believes Galopin Des Champs is worth taking on in the Gold Cup

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

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The biggest week in the horse racing calendar makes its return for 2024, and to celebrate bet365 are offering bumper prize pots for the 6 Horses Challenge every single day of the Festival!

Rachael Blackmore was leading jockey at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival and has identified the horses who could add to her 14 successes over the four day meeting

The Cheltenham Festival begins on Tuesday, March 12 when trainer Willie Mullins has four of seven favourites including State Man in the feature Unibet Champion Hurdle

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

Newsboy fancies his nap, Marie's Jewel, to prove a gem at Newcastle and also hopes Whosmydaddy can score at Ayr and complete his Daily Double

Given the choice of two outfits from his tailors to wear on Gold Cup Day, Fitzgerald posted both on his social media account and put it to a public vote

The Grand National winner, who suffered life-changing injuries in a fall in November, was visited by broadcaster Derek Thomson in hospital in Middlesbrough

General admission to Cheltenham Gold Cup day is sold out but hospitality tickets have yet to be snapped up on Friday and for the first three days of the biggest jumps meeting of the year

Ruby Walsh is the most successful jockey ever at the Cheltenham Festival having ridden 59 winners until he retired to become a pundit for Racing TV