Bobs Worth has won the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup. The 11-4 favourite made a late surge to overtake Long Run and Sir Des Champs and win by seven leng...

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the Blue Riband of the Festival and the highlight of the final day of Cheltenham 2013; eleven go to post in what promises to be a cracking race with the dual King George winner and 2011 Gold Cup hero Long Run only fourth favourite behind the Cheltenham specialists Bobs Worth and Sir Des Champs and the unexposed Silviniaco Conti.

The climax of the Cheltenham Festival will be set alight by the Gold Cup today, with favourite Bobs Worth heading an 11-strong field. But the thoug...

The feature race on Day 3 of the Cheltenham Festival is the World Hurdle and, with the ground drying up all the time, Oscar Whisky looks likely to go off favourite for the race although there remains a nagging doubt that he is not a true stayer and the intermediate 2m 4f trip of the Aintree Hurdle.

Sprinter Sacre won the Queen Mother Champion Chase on day two at the Cheltenham Festival to stretch his unbeaten record over fences to eight. The 1...

Ruby Walsh has a wonderful book of rides but he insists his best chance of a winner comes courtesy of the unbeaten Pont Alexandre (2.05) and he cannot be opposed in the Neptune; there are many who think the horse is a future Gold Cup winner and he certainly looks the part.

Hurricane Fly became the first horse to regain the Stan James Champion Hurdle since Comedy Of Errors in 1975 as he showed substantial guts to go with ...

One of the biggest events in the horse racing calendar got under way on Tuesday as thousands of punters descended on Cheltenham for Gold Cup week. ...

The feature race on the opening day is the Champion Hurdle with favourite Hurricane Fly (3.20) bidding to become the first horse since Comedy Of Errors in 1975 to regain the crown having first landed the prize in 2011.

Cheltenham Racecourse was undercover ahead of the start of the 2013 Festival, as attendants are braced for a cold reception. Bookmakers have said s...

It's the Grand National on Saturday. The runners and riders have been announced and the going has changed from soft, good to soft in places to good to...

Synchronised, ridden by AP McCoy, has won the Gold Cup at Friday's Cheltenham Festival. It is McCoy's second Gold Cup win, and came at the expense ...

Should horse racing be banned once and for all? Following the death of five horses at this year's Cheltenham Festival, we're kicking off the launch...

Three horses died in the opening hours of the Cheltenham Festival, and more are sure to follow. How many horses must perish before horse-racing is put out to pasture once and for all? More than 400 horses die in racing in the UK every year. Surely we have evolved enough to recognise that horses shouldn't have to suffer and pay with their lives so people can win a few quid.