Cheltenham 2024 Day One LIVE: Tips, racecards and newest outcomes

Last 12 months’s main coach scored six winners throughout the Festival together with capturing the Gold Cup with Galopin Des Champs, and he begins off this 12 months’s tilt on the title with a titanic six favourites throughout his 20 runners on day one.

Most of the speak on Champion Day will decide on his State Man, for whom the Champion Hurdle is already being seen as a processional.

But might the coach actually match final 12 months’s file on one spectacular beginning day?

The frankly depressing scene from Cheltenham, which is able to quickly profit from being gussied up by well-dressed punters.

Go on, take a look at what Mail Sport’s racing consultants need to say in regards to the motion day-after-day this week.

You’ll discover views from Mail Sport journalists, prime jockeys, and pundits, and so they share their ideas beneath.

Clerk of the Course Pullin’s prediction appears set to carry up, as we must always now dodge critical rain for the remainder of the day. Not to tempt destiny, or something.

The reply is, after all, the towering Istabraq, 32 years younger and nonetheless as camera-ready because the day of his ultimate Champion Hurdle win in 2000.

Mail Sport’s DOMINIC KING was granted an viewers with him, which you’ll be able to examine beneath.

Retirement at Martinstown Stud appears to be treating him properly.

And he offers us the morning’s report on the happening right this moment’s monitor, the Old Course.

Cheltenham Racecourse Clerk of the Course Jon Pullin has mentioned the worst of right this moment’s rain ought to have handed by 11am. Today is the primary day of The Cheltenham Festival 2024, Champion Day.

Speaking this morning after asserting that there shall be an inspection of the Cross-Country Course tomorrow morning, he mentioned: ‘We had been initially forecast, going again two or three days, to be dry right this moment. Then 48 hours in the past that forecast up to date to some gentle showers however solely round a millimetre of rainfall. Then yesterday it was up to date once more to 2-4mm for this morning.

‘The forecast which we acquired final thing yesterday then elevated additional and gave us some trigger for concern and by 6.30am this morning we had truly had 6mm, with an additional 4-6mm forecast by means of the morning. A heavier band of rain is because of arrive round 11am however it must be throughout by round lunchtime. We may get an odd bathe later within the afternoon however that shouldn’t be something too measurable – the worst of this rain ought to end this morning.’

Pullin defined that whereas the Old and New programs have ‘taken the actually rain properly’, the Cross-Country Course is extra of a problem because it doesn’t drain as properly.

He mentioned: ‘Both the Old and New Courses have taken the rain rather well and have been up to date to Soft, Heavy in locations. We will stroll the course at 10.30am and see if that description wants updating.’

Mail Sport’s Cheltenham consultants shall be giving us a every day debrief through their Cheltenham Breakfast studies, and with anticipation constructing forward of the beginning of the raceweek, right this moment’s installment is a doozy.

Have a peruse at your leisure, beneath.

Hello and welcome to Mail Sport’s reside protection of day one in every of this 12 months’s Cheltenham Festival, with slightly below an hour and a half to go till the gang unleashes the legendary Cheltenham Roar forward of our first race.

Make certain to set your watches for 3.30pm: that is when the day’s showpiece race, the Champion Hurdle, will happen.

But earlier than we get what must be a spine-tingling week of racing going, we’ll carry you all of the build-up, going studies, and newest odds forward of 1.30pm’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.