What makes the Festival unmissable?

MORE gripping than any Netflix series, the Cheltenham Festival has every ingredient to keep the nation enthralled – thrills, heroes and villains, winners and losers, and some of the most dramatic plot twists. So whether you’re heading trackside or enjoying the action from your sofa, what might this year’s Festival (15-18 March) have in store?

THE BEST OF RIVALRIES

FOR decades, some of the sport’s fiercest rivalries have played out on the Prestbury Park stage, adding to the rich narrative of the great occasion. We warmly welcome the annual Irish invasion to Cheltenham, and debates as to which nation will train the most winners during the four-day Festival invariably echo around the Guinness Village – there’s