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| Cheltenham Festival News 2005 |
Farmer Jack dies on gallops 16/03/05
Farmer Jack, who was supplemented for Friday's totesport Cheltenham
Gold Cup at a cost of A£17,500, has died after suffering a suspected
heart attack. [more]
Kingscliff out of Gold Cup 15/03/05
Kingscliff, who has been vying for favouritism in the totesport
Cheltenham Gold Cup, has been ruled out of Friday's big race. [more]
Best Mate To Miss Totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup - Statement
From Henrietta Knight 10/03/05
Best Mate, who has won three successive totesport
Cheltenham Gold Cups, will not run in chasing’s championship race
next week on Friday, March 18, after breaking blood vessels in his final
piece of work this morning. [more]
2005 Festival Entries Complete 07/03/05
Entries for all 24 races at
the 2005 Cheltenham Festival are revealed following today’s publication
of the horses engaged in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, National Hunt
Chase Challenge Cup and Christie’s
Foxhunter Chase. [more]
Farmer Jack Delivers Post 26/02/05
Richard Johnson rose to the occasion for the fourth time in six years
as he gave 5-1 chance Farmer Jack a fine ride to defy top weight
in the £100,000 Racing
Post Chase at Kempton Park today. [more]
Cheltenham Handicap entries 21/02/05
Following last week’s announcement of outstanding entries for the three
new handicaps at The 2005 Festival, an equally impressive list of possible contenders
is revealed today for the seven established handicaps that form such an integral
part of jump racing’s biggest meeting. [more]
Three New Handicaps Superbly Supported
Outstanding entries are
revealed today (Thursday, February 17) for The Festival’s three new
handicaps - The
Jewson Novices’ Handicap Chase, Sporting
Index Handicap Chase and Fred
Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle. [more]
Farmer Jack dents Gold Cup hopes 12/02/05
Farmer Jack ploughed up the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup
picture as he confounded punters at Newbury with a battling success in
the Aon Chase. [more]
Azertyuiop outguns Chief rival 12/02/05
Azerytuiop outjumped Well Chief to take the totepool Game Spirit Chase
at Newbury. Connections of the eight-year-old will head to Cheltenham
next month brimming with confidence. [more]
Bradburne Hoping For More Cheltenham Festival Success
Mark Bradburne, seeking his third success at The Festival, is looking
forward to riding at the event again this year. [more]
Baracouda "Firing On All Cylinders" ahead
of Ladbrokes World Hurdle Bid
The 10-year-old, who won the staying hurdle championship race
in 2002 and 2003 but finished second to Iris’s Gift in last year’s
event, worked at Chantilly, France, this morning on the Cheltenham Racecourse
press day. [more]
Howard Johnson on the Cheltenham trail
It's twelve years since Howard Johnson's solitary Cheltenham Festival
winner, and that came in that most antediluvian of races, the four-mile
novice chase. Since then, however, the resources at Johnson's disposal
make it unthinkable that he should arrive at the end of this year's Festival
trail empty-handed. [more]
Novice Chases Attract Star-Studded Entries
The Festival’s two Grade One novice chases, The
Irish Independent Arkle Chase and the Royal & SunAlliance
Chase, are set to showcase a whole array of potential champions following
publication of the entries for both races today. [more]
Fantastic Hurdling Showpieces In Prospect
The two most prestigious hurdling
events of the season, the Smurfit Champion Hurdle and Ladbrokes World
Hurdle , are both shaping up to be tremendous events with 35 entries
revealed for each race. [more]
Truckers
Tavern set for Gold Cup bid
Truckers Tavern, who came out of the wilderness to plunder the valuable Rowland
Meyrick Chase at Wetherby on Boxing Day, could be in line for a tilt at the totesport
Gold Cup if he continues to please trainer Ferdy Murphy. [more]
Kicking King wins King George VI Chase
26/12/04
Kicking King overcame a massive last-fence blunder
to score impressively in the Grade One Stan James King
George VI Chase at Kempton. [more]
Seychellois
looks hot
23/11/04
Les
Seychellois has already been mentioned in early Cheltenham Festival despatches
and the four-year-old did nothing to dampen that enthusiasm with an impressive
chasing debut at Warwick.
Trainer Paul Nicholls is now considering the Henry VIII Chase at Sandown
on Saturday week for a horse who looks like he can only improve. [more]
Mate gets home in thriller
19/11/04
Best
Mate pipped Seebald in a thrilling finish to the William Hill Chase at
Exeter.
The nine-year-old, sent off the 4-7 favourite, had to fight much harder race
than expected on his first run since winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the
third successive year last March. [more]
Brit Insurance announces National Hunt Racing sponsorship deal
16/11/2004
Brit Insurance, a UK-based international general insurance, reinsurance and investment
Group, today announced a further development to its sports sponsorship activity
with its first venture into National Hunt racing.
Brit will sponsor an integrated seasonal package in the National Hunt calendar
comprising four 3-mile Grade 2 Novices' Hurdle races culminating in a new race
at next year's four day Cheltenham Festival. [more]
