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Mon 9th Mar 2026

Cheltenham Festival Day One Tips: 'Ammes made a seamless transition to hurdles'

The wait is over as the 2026 Cheltenham Festival gets underway on Tuesday with a fantastic seven-race card, three of them Grade 1s and four hugely competitive handicaps.

12.49PM

Golden Ace and Lorcan Williams

Scott seeking another Golden moment with Cheltenham Ace

4.46PM

Ballyfad

Ten tips for the 2026 Cheltenham Festival

3.55PM

Supreme Novices' Hurdle preview: Johnny Ward and Tommy Lyons with each-way tips

3.35PM

Old Park Star

Henderson hopes to see Supreme sparkle from Old Park Star

3.22PM

Golden Ace

'Most attractive proposition' Golden Ace targets repeat amid mares' domination

4.04PM

Star Strewn and Adam Caffrey

Star Strewn team adopt patient approach

2.52PM

Ruby Walsh gives a Cheltenham A-Z: 'A filly worth a look at big each-way odds'

2.41PM

JP McManus

Bookmakers braced for McManus birthday bonanza with 'best team ever'

2.39PM

Cheltenham 14 March 2025 Inothewayurthinkin and Mark Walsh win The Gold Cup

Supercomputer predicts 2026 Cheltenham Gold Cup result

1.35PM

Kopek Des Bordes

Kopek Des Bordes and Lulamba locking horns in Arkle showdown

1.23PM

Leader D allier

Cheltenham Festival Day 1: Each-way plays

2.02PM

Cheltenham captured in pictures: Highlights from last year's Festival

12.48PM

Mighty Park

Geraghty: Mighty Park could be something really special

12.23PM

Smoke Them Out and Sam Coen

McCourt pair set for the Curragh

11.10AM

Cheltenham

Cheltenham Festival Day 1 - Lucky 15 Tips

11.36AM

Majborough

Majborough heads 10 chasing Queen Mother crown

10.50AM

Key connections Day One Cheltenham - 'Landed a Fairyhouse maiden by 38-lengths'

11.31AM

Mighty Park

'The Willie Mullins bingo horse' - The Tuesday Cheltenham Festival Acca

11.26AM

Robson De Aguiar

Tuscan Hills has Lincoln option for De Aguiar

10.20AM

Panda Boy and John Gleeson in Naas

Panda Boy heads to Cheltenham 'all guns blazing'

9.18AM

Sun 8th Mar 2026

Houlihan foils Mullins in the bumper

Dungarvan handler Conor Houlihan has made an impressive start to his training career and made it three wins from nine runners since taking out his licence when Kiltybo, a winner at Thurles last month, made all in the concluding mares' bumper at Naas.

6.10PM
Spread Boss Ted

Ted leads home a 1-2-3 for Mullins

5.24PM

The Lovely Man (right) gets up to beat Goraibhmaithagat

Cromwell lands Leinster National with The Lovely Man

5.02PM

No Drama This End (left)

McNeill prepared for the Drama of a Festival runner

4.35PM

Mojoe and Simon Torrens

Foley's charge gets his Mojoe back at Naas

4.35PM

Indefatigable (left)

Indefatigable success has lost none of its lustre for Webber

3.49PM

Hall backing Old Park to Star in Supreme test

3.33PM

Thankyouforthedays and Keith Donoghue

No kinks in Dempsey's handicap blot

3.26PM

Jane Mangan

Jane Mangan's Cheltenham Festival Tips: 'Fact To File is a penalty kick'

3.08PM

Spillane's Tower

Spillane's Tower ready to scale the Gold Cup heights

3.00PM

Le Labo (left) comes to tackle Blake (second left) at the last

Gleeson scents success and Le Labo delivers

2.56PM

Healys Pub and Phillip Enright

Drinks are on McKiernan as Pub strikes at Naas

2.25PM

Backmersackme and Sean Bowen won for owner Paul Byrne right and trainer Emmet Mullins

Johnny Ward and Tommy Lyons select a Cheltenham Lucky 15: 'He’s the best of Paul Byrne’s runners'

1.57PM

Lossiemouth

Lossiemouth team eager to seize Champion Hurdle challenge

1.48PM

'Please God he can do the job' - Owner Damien Dillon on supplementing The Passing Wife for the Albert Bartlett

1.07PM

Galopin Des Champs

Mullins adopting a sanguine outlook after Galopin ruled out

11.05AM

Lossiemouth

Lossiemouth leads nine contenders for Champion Hurdle crown

10.57AM

Bushmans Pass bids to repeat last year's win in the Leinster National at Naas

Ground dries slightly ahead of Bar 1 Leinster National Day at Naas

9.54AM

Ross O'Sullivan

O'Sullivan hoping Diamond can shine at Cheltenham

6.35AM

Sat 7th Mar 2026

Dromard makes big impression in bumper

Dromard pulled away in fine style to make an impressive winning debut in the concluding bumper at Gowran Park.

6.04PM
Lets Go Champ and Sophie Carter beat Hunters Yarn

Carter collects first chase win on Champ

5.16PM

Jigoro and James Smith (nearest)

Game Jigoro lands Gowran feature

4.38PM

Sky And Sand and Danny Gilligan

Patience pays off with Sand

4.06PM

Sean Bowen and Olly Murphy

Sandown scorer Scorpio Rising to the top for Olly Murphy

3.46PM

Trainer Gillian Callaghan

Soldier strikes for Callaghan

3.30PM

Gary Moore

Mondo Man overcomes last-flight drama in Imperial Cup

3.23PM

Likealightswitch and Harry Sexton untidy at the last

Switch gains deserved success for Sextons

3.03PM

Minella Boss and Philip Enright

McKiernan back in winners' enclosure with Boss

2.26PM

Don Cossack and Bryan Cooper

Cooper remembers ‘great relief’ of grabbing Gold with Don Cossack

2.18PM

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