Results Cheltenham Fri, 13th Mar, 2026

Going - Good to Soft (Soft in places).

Jackpot Pool - £171,580.39 Not Won. Carried forward to Kempton on Saturday 14th March. Placepot Pool - £1,328,566.10 Dividend - £730.40 Winning Units - 1327.83. Quadpot Pool - £127,080.94 Dividend - £43.10 Winning Units - 2180.59.

1.20

JCB Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £150,000 2m 179yds

1st

Apolon De Charnie (FR) (1)

50/1

Tote £54.40 £12.00

2nd

1.5L

Maestro Conti (FR) (9)

5/1

£2.00

3rd

shd

Minella Study (GB) (11)

7/1

£2.60

4th

1.75L

Selma De Vary (FR) (19)

13/2

OFF 1.20. Time 4m. 6.45 secs20 Ran

Trainer W P Mullins

Jockey Mr P W Mullins

Owner Edward Ware

Breeder M Yvan Molliere

Tote Exacta- £428.50
Tote Trifecta- £3528.90
CSF- £288.22
Tricast- £2028.17

Full Result

Apolon De Charnie stuns Cheltenham crowd with 50-1 shock in Triumph Hurdle

He was fantastic. He’s not very big, but he just caught my eye. I don’t usually watch the juveniles at home, but he caught my eye and I got a dream run everywhere. I’m very proud of my father. I’ve never seen him doubt himself as much as he has this winter. You get a lot of advice from people about what you’re doing wrong, but he sticks to his guns and gets it right most of the time

Apolon De Charnie and Patrick Mullins

Apolon De Charnie stuns Cheltenham crowd with 50-1 shock in Triumph Hurdle

2.00

William Hill County Handicap Hurdle (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £110,000 2m 179yds

1st

Wilful (IRE) (6)

14/1

Tote £15.00 £3.20

2nd

Sticktotheplan (FR) (14)

25/1

£5.80

3rd

Joyeuse (FR) (16)

12/1

£3.80

4th

0.5L

Cracking Rhapsody (IRE) (15)

50/1

£10.70

OFF 2.00. Time 4m. 6.14 secs23 Ran

Trainer Jonjo O'Neill

Jockey Jonjo O'Neill Jr

Owner Mrs Fitri Hay

Breeder Michael Murphy

Tote Exacta- £337.10
Tote Trifecta- £4903.20
CSF- £345.00
Tricast- £4332.66

NRs - Hamlet's Night (IRE) ( Going (Changed since declaration))

Full Result

Wilful by far the best in County Hurdle for Jonjo and A J O’Neill

It’s fantastic and these are the days you dream about, it’s magic. You hope they happen and you build yourself up to it, but when they do they are very special.

Wilful and Jonjo O'Neill Jr

Wilful by far the best in County Hurdle for Jonjo and A J O’Neill

It’s fantastic and these are the days you dream about, it’s magic. You hope they happen and you build yourself up to it, but when they do they are very special.

2.40

Mrs Paddy Power Mares' Chase (Grade 2) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £130,000 2m 4f 127yds

1st

Dinoblue (FR) (2)

11/8fav

Tote £2.38 £1.30

2nd

1.75L

Only By Night (IRE) (4)

11/1

£2.20

3rd

9.5L

Panic Attack (IRE) (7)

11/4

£1.30

4th

3.5L

Spindleberry (IRE) (1)

13/2

OFF 2.40. Time 5m. 7.38 secs8 Ran

Trainer W P Mullins

Jockey M P Walsh

Owner John P McManus

Breeder M L Bloodstock Limited

Tote Exacta- £15.80
Tote Trifecta- £53.20
CSF- £16.60
Tricast- £37.57

NRs - Diva Luna (IRE) ( Vets Cert (Lame) Issued on course by VO (Lame, left-fore))

Full Result

Dinoblue defends her Mares’ Chase crown with minimum of fuss

It was a competitive race and I think she got an excellent ride from Mark and what more can I say, I’m just very happy. One thing Mark said when he got off her was that her jumping today was magical. The last ditch she jumped so well and took her into the race and she was just competitive then. Mark didn’t want to go that far out but what could he do. She’s very uncomplicated, a lovely mare and she’s a good match with Mark. That looked her best performance without going through the form book. We’d been worried about the trip before but there didn’t seem to be any problem with anything this year â€” ground, trip but especially her jumping, that was extraordinary. If you had a horse jump like that every day of the week, it would make this game easy. I don’t know when she might go off to stud, the main difference between the Irish and French is that in France they’d go off to stud with her, but we treat these mares as racehorses and if they are good we tend to keep them. I’ll leave that up to the owner. There’s nice mares’ races for her left this season, so I’d imagine she’d stick to them.

Dinoblue and Mark Walsh

Dinoblue defends her Mares’ Chase crown with minimum of fuss

3.20

Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £154,650 2m 7f 213yds

1st

Johnny's Jury (IRE) (7)

20/1

Tote £23.20 £6.20

2nd

1.5L

Fruit De Mer (IRE) (4)

28/1

£7.10

3rd

The Passing Wife (GB) (19)

11/1

£3.70

4th

Mondoui'boy (FR) (12)

14/1

OFF 3.21. Time 5m. 59.64 secs22 Ran

Trainer Jamie Snowden

Jockey G Sheehan

Owner Blazing Blues RC Hurlers On The Ditch

Breeder Mr F McNulty

Tote Exacta- £428.60
Tote Trifecta- £5228.60
CSF- £476.90
Tricast- £6359.81

Full Result

Johnny’s Jury powers up the hill for Albert Bartlett victory

It’s fabulous, just wonderful. We never planned to be at the back, but it was a bit of a mess at the start once again. He’s travelled through the race and jumped great and there’s no better man than Gavin. We’ve gone through a lot of things over the last few years and it’s wonderful to have another Grade One winner and certainly at Cheltenham it’s amazing. He’s a very nice horse, he came from Nicky (Henderson) who highly recommended him and he’s done nothing but improve over the course of the last year. It was a massive step up from two miles one (furlong) to three miles, but he’s a half-brother to Appreciate It so we thought his stamina was not in question and thankfully it worked out. We’ve had some wonderful times, winning the Hennessy (Coral Gold Cup) with Datsalrightgino and Grade One winners at Aintree and other big races, but it’s tough. At this place it’s tough to win and it’s tough to run well. We came here with five bullets to fire and five really nice horses and haven’t got a look in, which makes results like this so special.

Winning connections with Johnny's Jury

Johnny’s Jury powers up the hill for Albert Bartlett victory

4.00

Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £625,000 3m 2f 70yds

1st

Gaelic Warrior (GER) (3)

11/4Jfav

Tote £3.75 £1.50

2nd

Jango Baie (FR) (8)

11/4Jfav

£1.50

3rd

Inothewayurthinkin (IRE) (7)

11/1

£2.50

4th

6.5L

Grey Dawning (IRE) (5)

16/1

OFF 4.00. Time 6m. 39.02 secs10 Ran

Trainer W P Mullins

Jockey P Townend

Owner Mrs S Ricci

Breeder Niarchos Family

Tote Exacta- £10.10
Tote Trifecta- £81.70
CSF- £10.36
Tricast- £68.98

NRs - Spillane's Tower (IRE) ( Going (Changed since declaration))

Full Result

Gaelic Warrior unstoppable in Cheltenham Gold Cup

It was a great ride by Paul. I haven’t seen the race, but I’ve heard it was! It’s been a great week, incredible, great racing, great winners, a good race today. I’m pleased for the horse. We try to buy Gold Cup winners, but we’ve never managed it before today. We’ve reached the mountain, but I love the game, it’s kept me involved all these years, the passion of the people. They take me as they find me, I’m not the easiest man, I’m an American, I’m loud, obnoxious, this that and the other, but the people have been good to me and long may it last. I always like to watch the race through my binoculars rather than on the screen and I could tell by Paul’s body language how he was going, I knew he was going well. This guy has to be up there with every one of my other Gold Cup winners, just because of the manner of his victory. Rich has been such a supporter of Closutton from the very start so to do something like this for him is fantastic. When he put in that huge jump at the fourth-last and landed in front I wondered if he had landed in front too soon and I was hoping nothing would come from behind. But when I looked at Paul I could see how confident he was. Paul has nerves of steel and to be on so much horse over the last three, he just sat there waiting.