subject: History of Cheltenham National Festival Tickets at YourTicketMarket.com [print this page] The Cheltenham National Festival Tickets is the most prestigious meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom,and has race prize money second only to the Grand National.Cheltenham National Festival is an event where many of the best British and Irish trained horses race against each other, the extent of which is relatively rare during the rest of the season. The Cheltenham National Festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The meeting is often very popular with Irish visitors, mostly because of that nation's affinity with horse racing, but also because it usually coincides with Saint Patrick's Day, a national holiday in celebration of the patron saint of Ireland. Huge amounts of money are bet during Cheltenham National Festival week, with hundreds of millions of pounds being gambled over the four days.Cheltenham National Festival is often noted for its atmosphere, most notably the "Cheltenham roar", which refers to the enormous amount of noise that the crowd generates as the horses enter the home straight for long run in to the winning post. The first Cheltenham National Festival Tickets was held in 1902 at Prestbury Park, Cheltenham National Festival , which still remains the same venue for the festival to this day. It was in 1904 that the first Cheltenham National Festival Steeplechase was introduced to the festival, a race which would become known as the Cheltenham National Festival Gold Cup in 1924, when it was won by a horse called Red Splash. The Gold Cup was the first of the festivals four Championship races, with the Champion Hurdle being introduced in 1927, the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 1959, and finally the Stayers Hurdle, which was first run in 1972. In 2001 the Cheltenham National Festival was cancelled due an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Britain. The meeting had initially been postponed to April, but when a case of foot and mouth was confirmed locally, putting the racecourse within an exclusion zone, all racing had to be called off.In 2008 the second day of the Cheltenham National Festival was cancelled due to heavy storms which hit Britain during the week. The races scheduled for that day were instead run on the Thursday and Friday of the Cheltenham National Festival. Until 2005, the Cheltenham National Festival had traditionally been held over the course of three days, but this changed with the introduction of a fourth day, meaning there would be one championship race on each day, climaxing with the Gold Cup on Friday. To ensure each days would still have six races, five additional races were also introduced. Two further races have since been added bringing the total to 26 races overall, with Grade One events including the Champion Bumper, Triumph Hurdle, Ryanair Chase, Supreme Novices' Hurdle, Ballymore Properties Novices' Hurdle, Arkle Challenge Trophy, RSA Chase, Champion Hurdle, World Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and the feature race, the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The Cheltenham National Festival also includes one of the two biggest Hunter Chases of the season, the Foxhunter's, which is run on the Friday over the same course as the Gold Cup, and is sometimes referred to as the amateurs' Gold Cup. Buy & Sell Cheltenham National Festival Tickets through YourTicketMarket.com.One stop shop to catch your favourite event. Fast and Secure! For Further Contact call us on 0044(0)207494 3245
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