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The turf

Comebacks, longshots and cruel disappointments: what makes Cheltenham Festival great

The stories that kept the crowd entranced

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

22 March 2014

9:00 AM

No sporting event anywhere compresses so much drama, emotion and character into a single venue as the Cheltenham Festival. It wasn’t just an extraordinary Gold Cup — in that six horses jumped the last with a chance of winning and at least two jockeys will go to their graves believing they were denied a victory that should have been theirs: the blanket finish had to be investigated fully by the stewards before the result was confirmed.

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