The 2016 Cheltenham Festival Mega Thread

CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL 2016 RACE SCHEDULE AND DATES

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The horse racing world will once again focus on the Cheltenham Festival, 4 days of thrilling competition in the natural amphitheatre that is Prestbury Park, at the foot of Cleeve Hill.

The 2016 Cheltenham Festival will take place over 4 days from Tuesday 15 March with the Cheltenham Gold Cup taking place on Friday 18 March. Here is the full Cheltenham Festival 2016 running order for races including dates, times, distances and grade. The Festival includes 28 top class National Hunt or ‘jump’ horse races. There have been a few sponsorship and name changes plus a race change with the The Trull House Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle replacing the St Patrick’s Day Derby Charity Race. Bring it on!

Like last season, there will be a separate thread for each race (which anyone is welcome to start) hyper-linked from here. The typical threads - ante post bets, meet-up thread etc etc will be added so this will grow into our definitive festival guide over the coming months.


Tuesday 15th March 2016 – Champion Day

13:30 The Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) (4yo+, 2m 110y)
14:10 The Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase (Grade 1) (5yo+, 2m)
14:50 The Ultima Business Solutions Handicap Chase (Grade 3) (5yo+, 3m 110y)
15:30 The Stan James Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (Grade 1) (4yo+, Class 1, 2m 110y)
16:10 The OLBG Mares’ Hurdle (Registered As The David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle) (Grade 1) (4yo+, 2m 4f)
16:50 The Toby Balding National Hunt Chase (Listed Amateur Riders’ Novices’ Chase) (5yo+, 4m)
17:30 The Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase (0-140) (5yo+, 2m 4f 110y)

Race names are subject to change.

Wednesday 16th March 2016 – Ladies Day

13:30 The Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle (Registered As The Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle) (Grade 1) (4yo+, 2m 5f)
14:10 The RSA Chase (Novices’ Grade 1) (5yo+, 3m 110y)
14:50 The Coral Cup (Grade 3 Handicap Hurdle) (4yo+, 2m 5f)
15:30 The Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase (Grade 1) (5yo+, 2m)
16:10 The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (5yo+, 3m 7f)
16:50 The Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) (4yo, 2m 110y)
17:30 The Weatherbys Champion Bumper (Grade 1 Standard Open NH Flat Race) (4-6yo, 2m 110y)

Race names are subject to change.

Thursday 17th March – St Patrick’s Thursday

13:30 The JLT Novices’ Chase (Registered As The Golden Miller Novices’ Chase) (Grade 1) (5yo+, 2m 4f)
14:10 The Pertemps Network Final (Listed Handicap Hurdle) (5yo+, 3m)
14:50 The Ryanair Chase (Registered As The Festival Trophy Chase) (Grade 1) (5yo+, 2m 5f)
15:30 The Ladbrokes World Hurdle (Grade 1) (4yo+, 3m)
16:10 The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate (Grade 3 Handicap Chase) (5yo+, 2m 4f)
16.50 The Trull House Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2) (2 miles 1f)
17:30 The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Chase (Amateur Riders) (5yo+, 3m 1f 110y)

Race names are subject to change.

Friday 18th March – Gold Cup Day

13:30 The JCB Triumph Hurdle (Juvenile Grade 1) (4yo, 2m 1f)
14:10 The Vincent O’Brien County Handicap Hurdle (Grade 3) (5yo+, 2m 1f)
14:50 The Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (Registered As The Spa Novices’ Hurdle) (Grade 1) (4yo+, 3m)
15:30 The Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase (Grade 1) (5yo+, 3m 2f 110y)
16:10 The St James’ Place Foxhunter Chase Challenge Cup (5yo+, 3m 2f 110y)
16:50 The Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle (4yo+, 2m 4f 110y)
17:30 The AP McCoy Grand Annual Handicap Chase (for the Johnny Henderson Challenge Cup) (Grade 3 Handicap) (5yo+, 2m 110y)

Race names are subject to change.

How long to go?

Cheltenham Festival Website

Oddschecker for the Festival

The ATR Cheltenham Festival Microsite

The Cheltenham 2016 Ante Post Thread

Dates for Entries and Handicap Weights

The not606 Cheltenham Festival Preview Evening

The 2016 not606 Cheltenham Festival Betting Competition

Cheltenham Festival 2016: Timeform Timing Debriefs

Cheltenham Festival 2016 Timeform Ratings Update


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The new (revised) bet calculator has been added

 

Any chance adding in the Gold Cup thread as a link here gents?

 

So who's going and what days be good for a 606 meet up maybe

 

Yes. I re-named your thread beefy and linked to that. Is that OK?

 

Great Ron, cheers

 

I'm putting up a thread with the closing dates and dates for publication of weights if you want to link to it from here.

 

Can you switch from tatts > best mate during the day

 

Latest entries are up in the Entries thread.

 

Just updated the entries/weights thread with the latest releases.

 

Well done Oddy

 

Great stuff OddDog. You should break your arm more often...perhaps not though

 

When can we start the 2017 version of this?!