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Few standalone meetings in the Jump racing calendar can rival Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham for passion, quality and thrilling sport. Graham Clark takes a look at why the fixture is the perfect appetiser before the main event in March… Festival Trials Day W ith The Festival™ now well and truly within sight, Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham is an unmissable prelude to horseracing’s ‘Olympics’. staged over an extended three miles and a furlong. Since its inception in 1980, three horses have completed the Cotswold Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup double in the same season – Little Owl (1981), Master Oats (1995), and most recently, Looks Like Trouble (2000). Plenty of other familiar names appear on the
The seven-race card, which this season will be held on Saturday 28 January, gives fans an inkling of what is to come, while giving horses destined for one of the 28 contests during Festival week a last chance for a dress rehearsal at Jump Racing HQ. As far as key staying chase trials go, there are not many better clues on offer than the form from the Grade Two Paddy Power Cotswold Chase, which is
illustrious roll of honour including See More Business, who landed the race either side of his 1999 Cheltenham Gold Cup triumph after prevailing in both the 1998 and 2001 renewals. Not only has the race served as a useful pointer towards the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup, it has also
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