INFOGRAPHIC: All the facts you need ahead of Cheltenham 2015
Over the four days of the festival millions will be spent and thousands of Irish fans will flock to Cheltenham to take part in the festivities.
Whether you want to brush up on your knowledge or you’re looking to blag your way through, we’ve prepared a simple graphic with everything you need to know and more.
In brief:
10,000 Irish fans will make the trip across with over £600 million being bet on the Cheltenham Festival. The centrepiece of the Festival the Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most valuable non-handicap chase in Britain with Lord Windermere winning last year.
€5,074,000 will be shared out as prize money with horses running 5,331 metres over the four day festival.
Ruby Walsh is the most successful jockey in Cheltenham history having won 41 races including two Gold Cups and three Champion Chases. On eight different occasions he was the meeting’s top jockey having won more races than any other competitor.
230,000 people will turn up eating 3 tonnes of smoked salmon, 2 tonnes of beef and 20,000 portions of chips.
Of course the punters may indulge in a drink or two with 220,000 pints of Guinness being pulled, 125,000 pints of lager, 18,000 bottles of champagne and 8,000 gallons of tea and coffee.
Happy punting!
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