The Cheltenham Festival awaits the horse to tackle the Stan James Hurdle & begin the festivities - Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Festival is the time of the year that is anxiously awaited by horse-racing enthusiasts around the world. It is a prestigious event held in the Cotswold Hills.
The race features some of the world’s best jockeys, trainers and horses from around the world. It is a festival that takes place over a period of four days.
This festival will begin from the 13th of March and end on the 16th. Along with horse-races this festival has many events that are highly anticipated.
March 13th, 2012, is when the festival begins, and the first day is known as Champions Day.
On this day, the champions of past and present are celebrated. The day will feature interviews with the known names of this sport.
It goes without saying that apart from the events, the day will be packed with 7 exciting races, including the Stan James Champion Hurdle.
On 14th March, 2012, the featured event of the Cheltenham Festival will be the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase, along with seven races, the best dressed guest will win an award.
On 15th March, 2012, the Saint Patrick Day will be celebrated. The races will become more action packed and competitive. The Ladbrokes World Hurdle will take place on this day and anticipations are high for Big Buck’s fourth victory, already flying around.
On 16th March, 2012, the event to be held is known as Cheltenham Gold Cup, one of the most exciting racing events of the year as the races are fast-paced and the competition is cut-throat.
The whole festival is a rush of adrenaline for the owners, trainers, jockeys and bookmakers.
The Ladbrokes World Hurdle is the featured race of the third day.
The race covers a distance of 3 miles and only specialists who qualify in the earlier rounds can compete in this race. This is a Grade 1 races in which horses over the age of 4 can compete in.
Big Buck’s is already the race favourite for this race. He has already won this 3 times in a row.
The 9-year-old gelding is the son of Cadoudal, out of Buck’s, who has had an extremely successful racing career.
He has not failed and acquired victories in every race since 1st January, 2009.
Trained by the renowned horse trainer, Paul Nicholls, Big Buck’s keeps on stealing competition from all other runners in every race.
He has acquired many victories at Cheltenham.
He has been a favourite at this festival for many years. He successfully defeated Punchestowns, in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes World Hurdle, on 12th March, 2009.
He defeated Time For Rupert in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes World Hurdle, on 18th March, 2010.
On 17th March, 2011, he defeated Grands Crus, in the same race, at Cheltenham Festival.
On 28th January, 2012, he defeated Dynaste by 7 lengths, in Grade 2 Rewards4racing Cleeve Hurdle.
This year 34 runners will be competing in this event.
Big Buck’s is the most popular runner because of his outstanding record.
Paul Nicholls is hoping that his diligence and hard work has paid off and the gelding will keep on adding to his list of first place finishes.
The other runners who will be facing Big Buck’s have a huge disadvantage as Big Buck’s is more experienced in this kind of racing, the track, consitions, and will certainly be eager to crush his competitors.
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