Cheltenham punters together with celebs and royals to neck 300,000 pints of Guinness

Racing revellers will toast the Cheltenham Gold Cup’s a hundredth birthday this week by necking 300,000 pints of Guinness and 14,000 bottles of bubbly.

Around 250,000 followers will descend on the Gloucestershire course to see a few of the world’s greatest horses competing in 28 races over 4 days for £4,815,000 in prize cash – a report for any pageant over jumps on the planet. The Queen might present alongside the Princess Royal and Zara Tindall – who sits on the racecourse’s committee.

Other celebs set to affix the crowds embody singer Rod Stewart and his spouse Penny Lancaster, TV presenters Carol Vorderman, Eamonn Holmes and Mary Berry, soccer legends Sir Kenny Dalglish and Peter Crouch and comic Lee Mack. Former soccer managers Sir Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp have doubtless runners – together with Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary and ex-Barclays boss Rich Ricci.

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It is within the course’s 50 bars stretching to a size of 2km – plus 17 eating places – the place the intense enterprise of choosing winners is most probably to be carried out. Cheltenham – which begins on Tuesday – is formally Britain’s high horse racing pageant for boozing, in accordance with a examine by betting.com.

A spokesman mentioned: “The only thing fans are looking forward to more than the 28 thrilling horse races across the week is the pints of Guinness. With the racing festival coinciding with St Patrick’s Day each year naturally the Irish stout is a popular drink of choice.

“Research reveals that the Cheltenham Festival ranks because the UK’s main horse racing pageant in relation to downing drinks. No different UK horse racing pageant crowd will get by means of Guinness fairly like Cheltenham.”

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The pageant will pump £274million into the native economic system, in accordance a latest examine by the University of Gloucestershire. Spectators will wolf down 10,000 gallons of tea and low, 48,000 afternoon teas and 5 tons of cheese.

Friday’s Gold Cup will mark the race’s a hundredth anniversary because it was first run in 1924. To mark the occasion The Jockey Club – which operates Cheltenham and 14 different racecourses – is providing 100,000 kids the possibility to pattern the game over the following 10 years.

They can take pleasure in free days out on the monitor, behind the scenes excursions of programs and journeys to stables and stud farms in a bid to encourage them to contemplate racing careers. The Jockey Club’s chief government Nevin Truesdale mentioned the Gold Cup was a “pinnacle of our sport” and its centenary a “milestone moment that we feel honoured to be able to celebrate”.

He added: “Our commitment to provide 100,000 opportunities for young people over the next 10 years not only reflects the extent of the Gold Cup’s ability to inspire but also allows us to look forward and show how we can help power the next 100 years of this historic contest and continue to grow the appeal of racing as a whole.

Boss of the course Ian Renton mentioned: “We’re looking forward to welcoming racing fans from across Britain, Ireland and all over the world for what promises to be an enthralling and spectacular four days of action on the track culminating in Friday’s fascinating Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup which celebrates its centenary this year.”

At this yr’s Cheltenham Festival, bookmakers Betfair are donating £10,000 to the Injured Jockey Fund for each winner that’s ridden by Rachael Blackmore. Throughout the season, £5,000 was being added for each considered one of Blackmore’s winners. But that has now been doubled for the best present on turf.

Proceeds from the initiative are being shared between two charities, the ‘Injured Jockeys Fund’ and ‘Irish Injured Jockeys’, which is able to assist make a big distinction to the lives of jockeys within the UK and Ireland.

Blackmore mentioned: “During the preview I called on Betfair to raise their game for Cheltenham and double the amount donated to the Serial Winner Fund if I’m lucky enough to get into the winner’s enclosure. I may have caught them slightly off guard, but I knew they would get on board, and we got the thumbs up. I’m fully focused on next week and looking forward to getting over there now.”