Cheltenham Festival 2017

Cheltenham Festival Results and Day Four Preview

Day Four is Gold Cup Day, the final day of the 2017 Cheltenham Festival that features the showpiece race where the best chasers in the business battle it out for glory in the Gold Cup itself.

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The Greatest Show On Turf was dominated by the Irish on St Patrick’s Thursday. On Stayers’ Hurdle day at Cheltenham’s famous racecourse, Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh recovered their form with four sensational wins. Between them, Ireland claimed six of the seven races.

After two days without a winner, Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins returned with a supersonic bang on the third day of the Festival, teaming up to score a 179-1 four-timer that included the day’s two feature races.

On an afternoon when Irish trainers won six races for the first time in Festival history, the favourite Un De Sceaux took matters into his own hands to give Walsh an armchair ride to victory with a spectacular display of jumping in the Ryanair Chase before Nichols Canyon came back gamely after being headed on the run-in to win the Stayers’ Hurdle.

Earlier the trainer-jockey duo had teamed up to win the JLT Novices’ Chase, with Walsh given plenty of work to do as he and Yorkhill negotiated their way through traffic to win by a length. In the day’s penultimate race, Let’s Dance justified favouritism to win the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle and complete the four-timer.

In the day’s second race, trainer Pat Kelly and owner Philip Reynolds teamed up to win their second successive Pertemps Handicap Hurdle when Presenting Percy triumphed in fine style under a patient ride from Davy Russell. Road To Respect made it five out of five for the Irish under Bryan Cooper in the Brown & Merrible Plater, giving trainer Noel Meade his first Festival winner over fences.

British trainers finally got a look-in in the day’s final race, the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir. Amateur rider Gina Andrews became the second woman to ride a winner at this year’s Festival when she drove 40-1 rank outsider Domesday Book home to give Stuart Edmunds a victory for one of training’s smaller operators.

Friday prediction and preview

We are into day four of the 2017 Cheltenham Festival also known as the Gold Cup day. There are seven races across the day, with all eyes on the main event – the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the race that every trainer, jockey and owner in the land wants to win. It is run over a distance of three miles, two and a half furlongs and they will jump a total of 22 fences. Arguably the most prestigious race in the racing calendar, it attracts the top horses from Britain, Ireland and even France.

13.30 Triumph Hurdle

Favourites: Defi Du Seuil

14.10 County Handicap Hurdle

Favourites: Mick Jazz

14.50 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle

Favourites: Death Duty

15.30 Cheltenham Gold Cup

Favourites: Native River

16.10 St James’s Place Foxhunters

Favourites: On The Fringe

16.50 Martin Pipe Conditionals Handicap Hurdle

Favourites: Battleford

17.30 Grand Annual Handicap Chase

Favourites: Rock The World