Cheltenham Festival
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Cheltenham Festival, now established in a four day format, attracts the best steeplechasers and hurdlers from across Britain, Ireland and Europe to compete for a record £3m in prize money in the most dramatic Cotswold setting.
The 26 races that make up the Cheltenham Festival are the most hotly contested of the entire racing calendar, which competes only with the Grand National in terms of prestige in the jump racing calendar.
Whatever the weather, spring arrives in Gloucestershire on the first Tuesday of the Festival. Helicopters clatter in over Cleeve Hill, the first of 200,000 pints of Guinness are sunk and spectators roar off the start of the first race at the Festival. That now traditional roar is an outpouring of a range of emotions from the relief of the racing community that Cheltenham has finally come round again, to the exhilaration of the crowd at the thought of what lies ahead – four days of high drama, effort and excess that will test both wallets and livers.
The excitement of the next Cheltenham Festival is 15-18 March 2011.
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With racegoers arriving from all over the world for this dramatic race meeting, the traffic can be congested around Cheltenham especially in the racecourse car parks. To overcome the most problematic of these bottlenecks choose Business As Usual Executive Travel for a chauffeur driven journey to and from the racecource. To discuss your Cheltenham Festival arrangements and to get a free quotation please contact us here or call 01993 847111.
Cheltenham Racecource
Prestbury Park, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 4SH. Ticketing: 08445 793 003
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