Cheltenham Festival

Irish dominance restored on final day of the festival with the Prestbury Cup score falling 18-9 in favour of the visitors

Jockey Paul Townend equals Pat Taaffe’s record with a fourth Blue Riband success as Willie Mullins adds a fourth winner in six years

Champion trainer Willie Mullins saddles seven runners as he pursues fourth Triumph Hurdle success in five years

Repeat of his superb Christmas display at Leopardstown likely to make Willie Mullins star Galopin Des Champs hard to beat in Gold Cup

Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp among the winners on day three of festival

Just under 54,000 came through the gates on a day when the home team struck back at Prestbury Park

English jockey Charlie Deutsch will bid for the Gold Cup having rejuvenated his career after serving a 2½ month prison sentence in 2018

Team Skelton leads the way with Grade One double through Grey Dawning and Protektorat

Seven-year-old was third in last year’s race behind stablemate Sire Du Berlais

Trainer’s Cheltenham heroics becoming routine while Ireland team for Scotland showdown to be named this afternoon

Home By The Lee could be Stayers player in first-time blinkers

Progressive Capodanno potential best option in Ryanair Chase puzzle

Wednesday’s card was reduced to six races after the Cross-Country course failed inspection

Gloucestershire-based trainer has two day three festival hopes in Crambo and Dysart Enos

Patrick Mullins wins the final race to bring his father to the landmark achievement of a century of festival winners

Trainer’s son Patrick in the saddle as Jasmin De Vaux earns him 13th victory in Wednesday’s Champion Bumper

Henry de Bromhead’s 17-2 shot secures Wednesday’s big prize after Willie Mullins’s El Fabiolo pulled up

Trainer needs three victories to hit milestone, while Gordon D’Arcy calls for statement performance against Scotland

Willie Mullins’s El Fabiolo may be clumsy sometimes but his Champion Chase claims are hard to knock

JP McManus’s No 1 jockey Mark Walsh to team up with Sa Majeste in Coral Cup

Ballad singer Paddy Reilly's Fleur Au Fusil may be value option from nine-strong Willie Mullins team as he chases 13th Bumper success

On a day of dominance for Irish-trained horses at Cheltenham, led inevitably by Willie Mullins, even the sole plucky 'underdog’ winner of the day - Chianti Classico - was Irish-bred

Corbetts Cross lands National Hunt Chase in a canter to seal apt success for Emmet Mullins

Another stunning day of Willie Mullins dominance at Cheltenham

Jockey Paul Townend wins a first Champion Hurdle title on 2-5 favourite

With State Man odds-on for Champion Hurdle glory, Lossiemouth looks to have her own ‘penalty kick’ opportunity in Mares Hurdle

Cheltenham Festival: Jockey Danny Mullins believes Il Etait Temps is the one to be on from Mullins team in Arkle

Irish trainers, led by the formidable Willie Mullins, expected to dominate four frantic days of Cheltenham Festival action

Willie Mullins needs just six more victories to reach landmark 100 at the biggest national hunt race meeting of the year

Nicky Henderson insists Triumph Hurdle favourite Sir Gino is ‘100%’ ahead of Friday’s juvenile championship

The Irish trainer‘s Cheltenham dominance may be boring, but we’ve never seen anything like him

From old-fashioned trainers to difficulties getting horses to ride, obstacles are left, right and centre for women in racing

With the milestone of 100 winners in his sights next week the trainer admits the pressure to succeed is always there

Cheltenham 2024: ‘The fact that it is four days has diluted the racing enormously, which is terribly sad’ – Edward O’Grady

Some celebrity advice for making next week’s Cheltenham festival pay

Minella Cocooner in €100,000 Leinster National one of five rides for champion jockey Paul Townend prior to biggest week of the year

Trainer Shark Hannon keeps faith with Wexford jockey Jordan Gainford to ride Hewick in the Cheltenham Gold Cup

Blood test shows that last year’s winner has ‘not recovered’ from ailment; Willie Mullins’s State Man now favourite

The grind of living from year to year and horse to horse has been broken for the Carlow trainer by an unlikely superstar who only cost €850 but has won more than €700,000

Inspections to be held on Saturday morning to decide if Navan and Leopardstown can go ahead this weekend