2020 Cheltenham Festival Dates

A view of a fence at the Cheltenham Festival.

The dates for the 2020 Cheltenham Festival have been announced and racing fans can look forward to four days of explosive action.

Sport doesn’t get much better than the Cheltenham Festival. The entire nation will embrace jumps racing for four days during the second week of March, as legends are made, records are broken and the best equine athletes etch their names into the annals of sporting history.

Many of the horses who starred in last year’s Champion Chase, Stayers’ Hurdle and Gold Cup will return to Prestbury Park next year, along with a whole host of newcomers looking to thrust their names into the headlines. Here are the dates for the 2020 Cheltenham Festival and a little look at which races punters can look forward to on each of the four days.

2020 Cheltenham Festival Dates

Tuesday 10th March – Champion Day

Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival, featuring the 2020 Champion Hurdle

1.30 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (2m 1/2f)
2.10 Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase (2m)
2.50 Ultima Handicap Chase (3m 1/2f)
3.30 Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy (2m 1/2f)
4.10 Mares’ Hurdle (for the David Nicholson Trophy) (2m 4f)
4.50 Close Brothers Novices’ Handicap Chase (2m 4 1/2 f)
5.30 National Hunt Challenge Cup Chase (4m)

Wednesday 11th March – Ladies Day

Day 2 of the Cheltenham Festival, featuring the 2020 Champion Chase

1.30 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle (2m 5f)
2.10 RSA Steeple Chase (3m 1/2f)
2.50 Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle (2m 5f)
3.30 Betway Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase (2m)
4.10 Glenfarclas Cross Country Handicap Chase (3m 7f)
4.50 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (2m 1/2f)
5.30 Weatherbys Champion Bumper (Open NH Flat Race) (2m 1/2f)

Thursday 12th March – St Patrick’s Day

Day 3 of the Cheltenham Festival, featuring the 2020 Stayers’ Hurdle

1.30 Marsh Novices’ Steeple Chase (2m 5f)
2.10 Pertemps Final (Handicap Hurdle) (3m)
2.50 Ryanair Chase (2m 5f)
3.30 Stayers’ Hurdle (3m)
4.10 Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate Handicap Chase (2m 5f)
4.50 Mares’ Novices Hurdle (2m2f)
5.30 Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Steeple Chase (3m 1 1/2f)

Friday 13th March – Cheltenham Gold Cup Day

Day 4 of the Cheltenham Festival, featuring the 2020 Gold Cup

1.30 JCB Triumph Hurdle (2m 1f)
2.10 Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle (2m 1f)
2.50 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (3m)
3.30 Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup Steeple Chase (3m 2 1/2f)
4.10 Foxhunter Steeple Chase (3m 2 1/2f)
4.50 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Steeple Chase (2m 1/2f)
5.30 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle (2m 4 1/2f)

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