The Cheltenham Festival kicks off tomorrow and punters are scurrying to the bookmakers in their numbers in a last-ditch effort to put their hard earned cash behind some of the finest national hunt horses to come out of the British Isles in recent years. The maiden event of the opening day at the rac...

Saturday will see the running of one of the biggest national hunt race of the month – the 2008 Hennessy Gold Cup. The Grade 3 national hunt steeplechase is scheduled to be run on the 29th of November, and will see some of the stars of the sport run over a distance of 3 miles and 2½ furlongs at Ne...