Cheltenham Festival Remembered

This Cheltenham Festival Remembered category is for those of us who are big fans of top-flight jumps racing to recollect and enjoy Cheltenham Festival races from the past. Usually containing videos and/or pictures, the posts in this category will make any NH fan’s heart skip a beat!

Cheltenham Festival 2009 Highlights Video

Cheltenham Festival 2009 Highlights Video

As we gear up for Cheltenham Festival 2010, we thought it was time to check out a few more videos of last year’s excellent Cheltenham Festival 2009 – here is a “video” of the highlights of last year’s Chelters.
You’ll see when you play it why I used the quotation marks around the word “video!” However, [...]

Video: Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Triumph Hurdle – Zaynar

As it is the 1st March 2010, we thought it was time to start reviewing the videos from last year’s Cheltenham Festival in order to start preparing ourselves for the epic Festival of National Hunt horse racing we have in store in a fortnight’s time.
This is the Triumph Hurdle from 2009, which was won by [...]

Cheltenham Festival 2009 - Citroen Leading Jockey and Trainer, Full Results

Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Citroen Leading Jockey and Trainer, Full Results

For this year’s Cheltenham Festival, Systemlays ran for the first time a special Festival Competition which hundreds of you entered online for free. Those numbers are currently being crunched, to work out the list of winners and also-rans in that one, but while we do, we thought we’d let you know the complete results of [...]

Cheltenham Festival 2009 Free Bets

Cheltenham Festival 2009 Free Bets

At Cheltenham Festival time you would not believe how hard the bookies are fighting to sign up new accounts in their online sportsbooks – so much so that there are some incredibly good deals available at this time of year to those of us who don’t mind spending 15 minutes signing up new betting accounts [...]

Cheltenham Festival Remembered - 1990 Gold Cup - Nortons Coin and Graham McCourt

Cheltenham Festival Remembered – 1990 Gold Cup – Nortons Coin and Graham McCourt

What a great and amazing race the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup was! Everyone was willing Dessie (Desert Orchid) to win after he showed such heart and class the previous year when battling back to win the 1989 Gold Cup (view 1989 Gold Cup here) yet Nortons Coin, under Graham McCourt, had the 90 Gold Cup [...]

Cheltenham Festival Remembered - 1989 Gold Cup Desert Orchid

Cheltenham Festival Remembered – 1989 Gold Cup Desert Orchid

Who can forget Dessie?
I love watching replays of Desert Orchid’s Gold Cups as they were the first races which really saw me getting bitten hard by the racing bug at the end of the 1980s.
This Cheltenham Festival is one of the first I can remember, and its certainly not lost anything in nearly 20 years [...]