Results Cheltenham Thu, 13th Mar, 2025

Going - Good to Soft.

Jackpot Pool - £136,145.44 Not Won. Carried forward to Cheltenham on Friday 14th March. Placepot Pool - £1,398,278.25 Dividend - £80.30 Winning Units - 12709.3. Quadpot Pool - £120,957.09 Dividend - £7.80 Winning Units - 11460.6.

1.20

Ryanair Mares' Novices' Hurdle (Grade 2) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £105,000 2m 179yds

1st

Air Of Entitlement (IRE) (1)

16/1

Tote £22.00 £4.60

2nd

0.5L

Sixandahalf (IRE) (21)

85/40fav

£1.70

3rd

Diva Luna (IRE) (6)

12/1

£3.70

4th

2.5L

Karoline Banbou (FR) (12)

10/1

OFF 1.21. Time 4m. 4.26 secs23 Ran

Trainer Henry De Bromhead

Jockey Rachael Blackmore

Owner Robcour

Breeder Mrs R H Lalor

Tote Exacta- £85.50
Tote Trifecta- £832.50
CSF- £51.68
Tricast- £472.15

NRs - Disco Dancer (IRE) (Withdrawn)

Full Result

Air Of Entitlement swoops late for Mares’ glory

We knew we had the stamina and obviously the New course suits. We always worry about being too handy in this race and Rachael got it spot-on. I thought they went a really good gallop and she gave her some spin. She stayed on really well. I thought when we winged the last we had a chance and I knew Keith (Donoghue, riding Sixandahalf) was up there the whole way, which historically hasn’t worked. It’s a long way up that straight, I thought we had a chance after jumping the last and I’m delighted.

Air Of Entitlement and Rachael Blackmore (right) beat Sixandahalf

Air Of Entitlement swoops late for Mares’ glory

2.00

Jack Richards Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (Grade 2) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £125,000 2m 4f 127yds

1st

Caldwell Potter (FR) (3)

7/1

Tote £8.10 £2.30

2nd

6.5L

Anyway (GER) (10)

125/1

£19.10

3rd

O'moore Park (IRE) (9)

66/1

£12.10

4th

Nurburgring (IRE) (8)

9/1

£2.10

OFF 2.01. Time 5m. 14.15 secs19 Ran

Trainer Paul Nicholls

Jockey Harry Cobden

Owner Ferguson, Mason, Hales, Done & Hogarth

Tote Exacta- £2008.80
Tote Trifecta- £31261.20
CSF- £715.64
Tricast- £41617.09

NRs - Ryan's Rocket (IRE) ( Self Cert (Cast in Box) )

Full Result

Caldwell Potter provides Nicholls with landmark 50th Festival win

We switched him into John’s colours, I don’t think we even told the other boys we were going to do that and Pat (Hales, wife) is obviously delighted. I knew we had him right, he’s taken a long while to get right. He’s done some good work at home but he’s had some problems with his feet and that’s all disappeared of late. He had a positive plan, he jumps brilliant. Everyone was trying to tell me what to do and what not to do trip-wise, I felt he wants a trip and I think he’d gallop forever. It’s just good to get him back. He’s such a brilliant jumper and such a genuine horse. Just because he had a big price tag, he’s had to put up with plenty of stick but it doesn’t matter, when they come through that front gate, they’re all worth the same. You’ve just got to work away to get them right and today he was right.

Caldwell Potter

Caldwell Potter provides Nicholls with landmark 50th Festival win

2.40

Pertemps Network Final Handicap Hurdle (Premier Handicap) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £110,000 2m 7f 213yds

1st

Doddiethegreat (IRE) (19)

25/1

Tote £28.30 £5.90

2nd

1.75L

Jeriko Du Reponet (FR) (10)

11/2fav

£2.30

3rd

2.75L

Catch Him Derry (IRE) (20)

14/1

£3.40

4th

0.75L

Feet Of A Dancer (FR) (8)

15/2

£2.30

OFF 2.40. Time 5m. 59.11 secs24 Ran

Trainer Nicky Henderson

Jockey B Hughes

Owner Mr K Alexander

Breeder Mr Kenneth Alexander

Tote Exacta- £248.10
Tote Trifecta- £3186.00
CSF- £144.32
Tricast- £2083.83

Full Result

Doddiethegreat becomes another poignant Cheltenham winner

We all like Doddie; he’s named after Doddie Weir and it all goes to the foundation. He got the most horrible overreach and spent time up in Ayr. It didn’t look like he would get back to a racecourse, but thankfully he did.

Doddiethegreat (right)

Doddiethegreat becomes another poignant Cheltenham winner

3.20

Ryanair Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £375,000 2m 4f 127yds

1st

Fact To File (FR) (3)

6/4fav

Tote £2.50 £1.30

2nd

Heart Wood (FR) (5)

18/1

£3.30

3rd

8.5L

Envoi Allen (FR) (2)

12/1

£2.50

4th

2.25L

Protektorat (FR) (9)

5/1

OFF 3.20. Time 5m. 9.61 secs9 Ran

Trainer W P Mullins

Jockey M P Walsh

Owner John P McManus

Breeder M Michel Pehu

Tote Exacta- £26.00
Tote Trifecta- £152.50
CSF- £29.28
Tricast- £242.21

Full Result

Fact To File coasts to impressive Ryanair Chase victory

It was a hell of a field and he won very easily, he’s a proper horse. They went a good gallop and he just stayed with them and got his jumping right and coming off the bend I don’t think Mark was worried, he just needed to get over the last two fences and he did that well. It’s a surprise the manner he has won it and I was hoping coming here he was good enough to win it and he would win it, but when you’ve got Il Est Francais and Protektorat in the field, they are good horses and horses of a lifetime for some people. He was able to beat them like that, which is huge. Every day of the week, I think he would be the one to give Galopin Des Champs the biggest problems, I do, and he was in the Gold Cup but we felt it was better to bide our options and let him come to this race. He could be a Gold Cup horse next year and he will be a year older, we just felt at this stage of his career, a hard race in the Gold Cup if it turned up soft is not what he wants. That was the way our thinking was all season and JP was very pro that, we just didn’t want him to have a hard race in a Gold Cup, as sometimes that can ruin a horse’s career. I’m not going to talk about two-year plans after Lossiemouth, but I imagine that’s where he will be going next year.

Fact To File and Mark Walsh with Georgia Fenwicke Clennel

Fact To File coasts to impressive Ryanair Chase victory

4.00

Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race)(Class 1 ) of £325,000 2m 7f 213yds

1st

Bob Olinger (IRE) (1)

8/1

Tote £9.00 £2.10

2nd

1.75L

Teahupoo (FR) (14)

7/4fav

£1.50

3rd

The Wallpark (IRE) (15)

7/1

£2.40

4th

0.5L

Rocky's Diamond (IRE) (13)

28/1

OFF 4.00. Time 5m. 58.85 secs13 Ran

Trainer Henry De Bromhead

Jockey Rachael Blackmore

Owner Robcour

Breeder Kenneth Parkhill

Tote Exacta- £27.30
Tote Trifecta- £175.20
CSF- £21.28
Tricast- £105.16 (14, 15 and 1) £105.16 (1, 14 and 15)

NRs - Langer Dan (IRE) ( Vets Cert (Respiratory Infection) ), Monmiral (FR) ( Self Cert (Cast in Box) )

Full Result

Bob Olinger battles to dethrone Stayers’ Hurdle champ Teahupoo

It’s unbelievable, a super ride from Rachael and great work from all the team at home. To get him back like that is incredible and I’m delighted for everyone. Davy Roche, my assistant, he’d take a bullet for him – he adores him. He said he worked well the other day and he’ll be ecstatic. He’s just a class horse and he was unbeaten here. I was at a preview event a few weeks ago and I wasn’t looking at the betting, but he was 66-1 and I was thinking ‘oh my God’, I couldn’t believe it. He’s a bit of a poser and a dude who loves the attention and deserves every bit he gets. He comes alive here and obviously loves it here. We had a couple of funny years with him, but he’s back now. You always hope they’ll come back and win another big one, but I never foresee anything winning anything!. You live the dream and you hope and try to maintain them as well as you can. It’s so hard to get a good horse, so when you get a good one, you want to try and maintain them for as long as you can and I really feel we try to do that. It’s brilliant for Rachael. She’s just so good and is such a professional who works so hard. When she came back from injury our horses hit a bad patch of form, but she just does what she does – she’s class.