Friday 15 December 2023
The Christmas Meeting Friday
Tickets HospitalityTHE CHRISTMAS MEETING FRIDAY
Celebrate your Christmas party or Christmas get together with friends, by enjoying the fun festive atmosphere, fantastic racing and superb entertainment. With an overseas flare and the spectacle of the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase, to the entertainment off the track, it promises to be a race day to remember.
The festive feature race is the Dahlbury Handicap Chase, last year won by the Welsh Randox Grand National hope Eva’s Oscar. After finishing second at The November Meeting, the grey mare went one better at the Christmas meeting and won for jockey Alan Johns and trainer Tim Vaughan.
Lily Pinchin and the David Bridgewater trained Dame Du Soir won the CF Roberts Electrical & Mechanical Services Mares Handicap Chase. This was a welcome winner for David Bridgewater who was previously famed for training horses like The Giant Bolster and more recently the 2019 Cheltenham Festival Ultima Chase winner The Conditional.
The Tattersalls Cheltenham Sales are back on the Friday of The Christmas Meeting, the racing sales will offer a select group of winning and placed point-to-pointers and form horses after racing in the sales ring.
Enjoy and experience fabulous festive fun and great racing at the Home of Jump Racing.
Under 18’s race free and do not require a ticket to enter.
Timings and races are subject to change
Gates Open
10:00
RACEDAY PREVIEW
11:20 - 11:50
Live in the Parade Ring
First Race
12:05
Last Race
15:35
Start Times |
Race |
Distance |
Type |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:05 | The British E.B.F. National Hunt Novices’ Hurdle Race (Class 3) (Qualifier) | 2m abt 1f | Hurdle | |
12:40 |
The Cheltenham & South-West Racing Club Novices’ Steeple Chase (Class 2) |
2m abt 4f |
Hurdle |
|
13:15 |
The Catesby Estates Handicap Hurdle Race (Class 3) |
2m abt 1f |
Hurdle | |
13:50 |
The Mares’ Handicap Steeple Chase (Class 3) (Challenger Mares’ Chase Series Qualifier) |
2m abt 4½f |
Steeple Chase |
 |
14:25 |
The Unibet Middle Distance Veterans Handicap Steeple Chase (Class 2) |
2m abt 4½f |
Steeple Chase |
|
| 15:00 | The Glenfarclas Crystal Cup Cross Country Handicap Steeple Chase (Class 2) | 3m abt 5½f | Steeple Chase | |
15:35 |
The CITIPOST Handicap Hurdle Race (Class 2) |
Abt 3m |
Hurdle |
|
FRIDAY FESTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
- Friday will be filled with Christmas cheer across the racecourse with entertainment from The Hipcats performing Christmas hits on the Quevega Stage to Got2Sing Choir entertaining racegoers with Christmas Carols throughout the day.
- The festivities don’t stop there, as a living snow globe will glide gracefully through best mate plaza, at 11:10 - 11:40, 12:10 - 12:40 & 13:20 - 13:50, all against a backdrop of exhilarating racing.
MAKE THE MOST OUT OF THE CHRISTMAS MEETING
Festivities are really starting to ramp up when Cheltenham’s Christmas Meeting comes along. So, round up your troops and start your Christmas merriment at Cheltenham Racecourse. Saturday will see family festivities with Santa's Grotto and Pony rides!
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