The Cheltenham Festival Preview Magazine 2023

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“THE UNIBET CHAMPION HURDLE’S ROLL OF HONOUR IS A WHO’S WHO OF SOME OF THE GREATEST RACEHORSES TO HAVE GRACED THE HALLOWED CHELTENHAM TURF”

Mares’ Hurdle made headlines around the world back in 2015, when Annie Power’s fall at the final flight denied a pay-out which would have cost bookmakers in the region of £50 million. Last year’s winner Marie’s Rock is one of the leading contenders as she bids to defend her crown and win back-to-back renewals, where she could come up against previous Unibet Champion Hurdle winners Honeysuckle and Epatante. By 6pm on Tuesday it is time to take stock at the end of a breathtaking day’s racing… and to get ready to do it all again on Wednesday.

a new course record time, it was truly a performance of epic proportions. Equally impressive so far this season with two Grade 1 wins, he is set to take on last year’s Grade 3 McCoy Contractors County Hurdle winner, State Man, who was an impressive winner in the Grade 1 Chanelle Pharma Irish Champion Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival. The Sporting Life Arkle Novices’ Chase regularly serves as an express route to the following year’s Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase while the final Grade 1 contest of the day has an ability for producing drama, and The Close Brothers

Champion Hurdle when the pair came home six and a half lengths clear in 2021. Further history was made in 2022 when Honeysuckle became the first mare to win more than one Champion Hurdle as she came home three and a half lengths to the good over 2020 winner Epatante. Run over the same distance as the Unibet Champion Hurdle, the opening Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle is a race which not only sets the tone for The Cheltenham Festival but also regularly produces a star of the future. Like in the case of the 2022 winner Constitution Hill, who won by 22 lengths and set

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