Rachael Blackmore completes Triple Crown with stunning Gold Cup triumph

Henry de Bromhead secures back-to-back Gold Cups as Irish trainers win all seven races on final day

Favourite Sir Gerhard to face eight rivals in Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle

Bravemansgame and Ahoy Senor to renew their rivalry in the Novices’ Chase

Decision taken to water new course ahead of Cheltenham festival

When watering in the past, officials have aimed to start festival on good to soft going

Traditional music meets jazz as Damien McGeehan hits uncharted terrain

Donegal fiddle players’s new album Kin has a strong sense of people and of place

A Plus Tard sets out on Cheltenham path with Betfair Chase reappearance at Haydock

The Henry de Bromhead-trained horse will try to deny Bristol De Mai a fourth win in the race

Envoi Allen could make return to action at Punchestown Festival

Henry de Bromhead-trained horse suffered first defeat of career after fall at Cheltenham

Cheveley Park Stud move their horses away from Gordon Elliott’s yard

Trainer will learn if he faces a ban from the sport on Friday

Patti Smith brings them All Together Now: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

Indiependence, Lethal Dialect, Richard Thompson and a celebration of Elliott Smith

The Cold Blue: Stunning retelling of a second World War legend

Review: The testimony of the airmen is what lingers most strongly in this documentary

‘We had it licked. Now America is the idiot cousin of Europe’

Erik Nelson on his documentary about the bombing of Germany, and the resonances today

Glastonbury bans plastic bottles for 200,000 festivalgoers

Music festival will no longer sell single-use plastic water bottles in bid to cut waste

John Smith – Hummingbird review: First-rate folk

Richard Thompson: 13 Rivers review – Baker’s dozen of British folk-rock brilliance

The whole of the tune: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

Waterboys, Ash, Aslan, Joan As Police Woman and the guy out of Barenaked Ladies