Festival Races

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Four days of extraordinary racing

The Cheltenham Festival is home to 28 races across four days, with prize money of over £4.5million. We welcome over 265,000 racegoers to watch the finest participants in our sport compete for the highest honours.

Watch our 2019 Festival racing highlights below...

DAY ONE

We kick start The Cheltenham Festival with seven races on Day One. The feature race is the iconic Unibet Champion Hurdle at 3:30pm, with prize money of over £450,000. The 2019 renewal saw Gavin Cromwell train his first winner at The Festival with Espoir D'Allen.

DAY two

Day Two of The Festival has another seven races to enjoy. The feature race of the day is The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase, a race in which we saw Altior produce a record-breaking performance of 19 consecutive Jump races, including regaining the Queen Mother Champion Chase title at The Festival.

DAY three

Day Three of The Cheltenham Festival is home to celebrating St Patrick's Day and every year the atmosphere is second to none with a quality seven racecard on offer, with two feature races. The first of the two is The Ryanair Chase, won by Bryony Frost in 2019, the first female rider to win one of the five Championship races, onboard Frodon. The Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle Race follows shortly afterwards, won in 2019 by Paisley Park, trained by Emma Lavelle.

DAY four

Gold Cup Day, Day Four of The Cheltenham Festival concludes four incredible days of racing. The Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup has created legends in the racing world and 2019 was no different. The greatest chasers in Britain and Ireland line up at 3:30pm every year to be presented the original 1924 Gold Cup. In 2019, Willie Mullins won his first-ever Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup with Al Boum Photo.

Four incredible days of racing will return from 10th - 13th March 2020. Will we see you there? Buy your tickets today to join us for four days of extraordinary.

the festival schedule

GATES OPEN: 10:30

Sponsors, prize money, and race distances are correct as of The Festival 2019, these are subject to change.

Start Times	Race	Distance	Type	Prize Money
13:30	The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle Race	2m abt ½f	Hurdle	£125,000
14:10	The Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase	abt 2m	Chase	£175,000
14:50	The Ultima Handicap Steeple Chase	3m abt 1f	Chase	£110,000
15:30	The Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (feature race)	2m abt ½f	Hurdle	£450,000
16:10	The Mares’ Hurdle Race	2m abt 4f	Hurdle	£120,000
16:50	The Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase	2m abt 4½f	Chase	£70,000
17:30	The National Hunt Steeple Chase Challenge Cup (Amateur Riders’ Novices’ Steeple Chase) (Grade 2)	Abt 4m	Chase	£125,000

Sponsors, prize money, and race distances are correct as of The Festival 2019, these are subject to change.

Start Times	Race	Distance	Type	Prize Money
13:30	The Ballymore Novices' Hurdle Race	2m abt 5f	Hurdle	£125,000
14:10	The RSA Insurance Novices' Steeple Chase	3m abt ½ f	Chase	£175,000
14:50	The Coral Cup Hurdle (A Handicap Hurdle Race) (Grade 3)	2m abt 5f	Hurdle	£100,000
15:30	The Betway Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase (Grade 1) (feature race)	Abt 2m	Chase	£400,000
16:10	The Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase	3m 6f	Chase	£65,000
16:50	The Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Race (Grade 3)	2m abt ½f	Hurdle	£80,000
17.30	The Weatherbys Champion Bumper (A Standard Open NH Flat Race) (Grade 1)	2m abt ½f	Bumper	£75,000

Sponsors, prize money, and race distances are correct as of The Festival 2019, these are subject to change.

Start Times	Race	Distance	Type	Prize Money
13:30	The Marsh Novices’ Chase (Grade 1)	2m abt 4f	Chase	£150,000
14:10	The Pertemps Network Final (A Handicap Hurdle Race) (Listed)	Abt 3m	Hurdle	£100,000
14:50	The Ryanair Steeple Chase (Grade 1) (feature race)	2m abt 5f	Chase	£350,000
15:30	The Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle (Grade 1)	abt 3m	Hurdle	£325,000
16:10	The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate (A Handicap Steeple Chase) (Grade 3)	2m abt 5f	Chase	£110,000
16:50	The National Hunt Breeders Supported By Tattersalls Mares Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2)	2m 1f	Hurdle	£90,000
17:30	The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Steeple Chase (0-145)	3m abt 2f	Chase	£70,000

Sponsors, prize money, and race distances are correct as of The Festival 2019, these are subject to change.

Start Times	Race	Distance	Type	Prize Money
13:30	The JCB Triumph Hurdle	2m 139y	Hurdle	£125,000
14:10	The Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle Race	2m 179y	Hurdle	£100,000
14:50	The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle Race	2m 7f 213y	Hurdle	£125,000
15:30	The Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeple Chase (feature race)	3m 2f 70y	Chase	£625,000
16:10	The St. James’s Place Foxhunter Steeple Chase Challenge Cup	3m 2f 70y	Chase	£45,000
16:50	Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Handicap Chase	2m 62y	Chase	£111,000
17:30	Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle	2m 4f 56y	Hurdle	£70,000