Four days of championship jump racing at Prestbury Park in mid-March, and the loudest crowd in British sport.
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Cheltenham is where National Hunt racing settles its arguments. Four days in the middle of March, on an undulating course under Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire, decide the season's championships: the Champion Hurdle, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the Stayers' Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Attendance runs above 220,000 across the four days. The meeting's defining sound is the Cheltenham roar when the tape rises on Tuesday's opening race, and what gives it force is the Irish presence: much of the crowd has crossed the sea for it.
01Почему это важно
This is the championship meeting of jump racing, the branch of the sport with the deepest hold on Britain and Ireland. In our reading its importance is social as much as sporting: no other British meeting has a genuinely bi-national crowd.
02Неделя вокруг мероприятия
Cheltenham, a Regency spa town of 116,000, absorbs a crowd larger than itself: hotels across Gloucestershire and into the Cotswolds are taken at multi-night minimums, and shuttle buses link town and course all day.
03Когда прибыть
Tuesday and Friday matter most and are hardest to get into; arrive Monday evening and leave Saturday morning.
04Где остановиться
Cheltenham town center is the obvious choice, a forty-minute walk or short shuttle from the course; the Cotswold villages give you a better week if you have a car.
05Доступ и гостеприимство
The Jockey Club sells enclosure admission across the four days — Best Mate, Tattersalls and Club — plus restaurants, boxes and packages, with annual badge schemes carrying priority. Demand exceeds supply for Tuesday and Friday.
06Где происходит светская активность
The Guinness Village on course is the meeting's genuine center; beyond it, the Parade Ring lawn and the terraces above the finish. In town, the Montpellier bars and the Promenade hotels.
07Как добраться
08Практические сведения
09История
The meeting traces to 1860 and the National Hunt Chase, which settled at Prestbury Park from 1911. The championship races followed: the Stayers' Hurdle in 1912, the Gold Cup in 1924, the Champion Hurdle in 1927, the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 1959. It grew to four days in 2005.
10Кто присутствует
Owners, trainers and stable staff from the British and Irish jumping yards; a very large Irish travelling public; the betting industry and professional punters; and a devoted racing public.
Сезон продолжается
Часть: Equestrian Circuit
Даты в базе
| Издание | Даты | Статус |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | ПодтвержденоThe Jockey Club publishes the 2027 Festival as 16–19 March 2027 on its Cheltenham pages. | |
| 2026 | ЗавершеноThe 2026 Festival ran Tuesday 10 to Friday 13 March, with the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup at 4 p.m. on the Friday. Wikipedia records attendance of 226,223 across the four days, up from 218,093 in 2025. |
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Источники
- Cheltenham Festival 2027, The Jockey Club official открыт 6 September 2026
- Cheltenham Festival 2026 — tickets and information, The Jockey Club official открыт 6 September 2026
- Cheltenham Festival, Wikipedia encyclopedia открыт 6 September 2026