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After breaking his leg in a fall in January, leading jockey Jack Kennedy faced a race against time to be fit for the Cheltenham Festival and will now miss the meeting for a second time

Steal A March is a 16-1 shot for Thursday's Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival and there are hopes that King Charles will attend to see his Nicky Henderson-trained horse in action

The trainer believes his star chaser will handle the contours of the course in jump racing's blue riband as he prepares to take on a strong Irish challenge

Three-time champion Flat jockey Oisin Murphy was granted both a jumps and Flat licence when he returned from a 14-month ban but wants to focus on his Flat commitments this year

James Bowen, 21, will have to wait another 12 months to ride his first Cheltenham Festival winner due to a broken arm, robbing Nicky Henderson of his second jockey

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The official line-up is not set to be revealed until next month - but punk rock'n'roll legends Blondie have let slip that they will indeed be returning to Worthy Farm to perform to fans

The King gained his biggest success since inheriting the royal racehorse string from the late Queen Elizabeth when Chalk Stream won a Listed race on Australia Day last month

Trainer Dan Skelton was unhappy with Martin Greenwood's comments about the lack of potential British-trained runners in the 2023 Grand National at Aintree. Le Milos and Ashtown Lad may run from the Alcester stable

Cheltenham Borough Council will use wee-repelling hydrophobic paint during the four day Cheltenham Festival to try to stop racegoers urinating in public

Jonbon was overtaken by Calico at Warwick but jockey Aidan Coleman was patient on the hot favourite in the Grade 2 Virgin Bet Kingmaker Novices' Chase. However El Fabiolo is now the new favourite for the Arkle

Baracouda was trained by Francois Doumen to win the Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2002 and 2003 and won Ascot's Long Walk Hurdle a record four times

Gold Tweet surprised Dashel Drasher and Paisley Park plus his own trainer Gabriel Leenders when becoming France's first graded race winner at Cheltenham for 18 years

Leonardo DiCaprio has an interesting and very thorough dating history and has famously never been publicly linked to anyone over the age of 25

Queen Mother Champion Chase favourite Edwardstone was lame for most of last week but the issue is not a major concern for his trainer Alan King ahead of the Cheltenham Festival

Honeysuckle, who suffered only the second defeat of her career in the Irish Champion Hurdle on Sunday, will not defend her crown in the Champion Hurdle which she had won for the last two seasons

Topping the bill next July will be headliners Royal Blood, Alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club, with special co-headliners The Vaccines, Self Esteem, and Kate Nash

Paul Nicholls's stable jockey Harry Cobden claimed stewards indicated he would have received a 24-day ban for his use of the whip at Cheltenham had the controversial new rules been in force

Legendary rockers The Courteeners will return to Tramlines Festival later this year, four years after last playing at Hillsborough Park, with the likes of The Sugababes

Newsboy reckons his nap, Grand Voyage, can sail home in the 3.00 at Ayr, and he also fancies Noisy Night to score at Kempton

The trainer admits he did not have the Betfair Chase hero anywhere near peak condition in the Cotswold Chase where he trailed in fourth but has urged punters not to write him off

Cheltenham is building a Columbarium Wall where enthusiasts can reserve niches into which urns contained their ashes can be stored after they pass away

Trainer Nicky Henderson has thanked the public for their get well messages to the two-time winner of the Champion Chase, who was in a critical condition after falling sick with colic

The 13-year-old four-time Cheltenham Festival winner, who retired in 2021, underwent surgery to remove part of his intestine but complications developed

Video footage shows the horrifying moment a crane carrying eight people toppled over in the middle of a huge crowd at a festival in Tamil Nadu State, India. Four died and five were hurt in the tragedy