The beginning of the first race of the day is met by the famous ‘Cheltenham Roar’, as the crowd yell at the top of their voices to herald the beginning of the action. The first event is the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, a race which crowns the top two-mile novice hurdler of the season. The four day event also draws in massive crowds with up to a quarter of a million people travelling to the Cotswold town over the course of the week to sample the famous atmosphere. Here is the full schedule and how you can follow the action: Cheltenham Festival TV details That was some way to get going, then Edwardstone put in another strong performance to take the Arkle but day one for many was all about the Champion Hurdle. The majority of races each day of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival will be broadcast live on ITV's main channel throughout the week, while the entire card will be shown on Racing TV for those with a subscription.

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Returning to the Cheltenham Gold Cup, surely the greatest ever Cheltenham training performance came in that race in 1983.Winners of the Stayers’ Hurdle and the Ryanair Chase pretty much share equal billing on Thursday, and at the end of the day we reach the three-quarter mark and it’s all eyes on the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Day 4 – Friday 17th March 2023

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Fergal O’Brien is one of a few local trainers to Cheltenham, alongside former mentor Nigel Twiston-Davies, Tom George and Kim Bailey who have stables in Gloucestershire. These handlers find it difficult to get in amongst the winners at the Festival, but are well worth looking at for other meetings at the course earlier in the season. Paul Nicholls is also having a fine campaign with his runners. He enjoyed eight winners at Cheltenham Festivals over the last five years and has won many of the top races held there in his training career. Nicholls’ Ditcheat stables are home to Politologue, the winner of the 2020 Champion Chase, and Stayers’ Hurdle hopeful McFabulous. Step 7 – Learn Betting Terms You Might Hear at the Cheltenham Festival The 3m½f Brown Advisory Novices' Chase (2.10) and the Weatherbys Champion Bumper (5.30) , in which It's For Me could attempt to give Mullins an incredible 13th winner, are the other top-level races on the day.There will be 28 races at the Festival in total, seven on each day of the meeting. When was the first Cheltenham Festival? There was a major upset in the Stayers’ Hurdle, meanwhile, with 50/1 chance Lisnagar Oscar leading home three outsiders. The fancied runners including previous winner Paisley Park just didn’t deliver over three miles. Harry Whittington enjoyed a first-ever Cheltenham Festival winner in the Stable Plate Handicap Chase with Simply The Betts beating BetVictor Gold Cup heroine Happy Diva. Al Boum Photo defends Gold Cup While the high street titans such as Ladbrokes and William Hill are still going strong, the undoubted kings of the online sports betting world these days are bet365. That race features future Gold Cup hopes of course, while we also feature the unique Cross-Country race in which Tiger Roll did so well over the years.