Bookmakers were battered on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival as punters piled into another feature-race winner.

Tony Martin must have given something in the region of a dozen interviews in as many minutes after Bryan Cooper guided Ted Veale to victory in the Vincent O’Brien County Handicap Hurdle yesterday.

Your heart had to go out to Jane Mangan, after she had victory dragged from her grasp in the Foxhunters yesterday.

THE Diary is used to screaming girls as he walks through the streets (ahem), but even this correspondent knew something was up as a posse of women shrieked uncontrollably as he walked past the Arkle bar.

Paul Nicholls had to wait until the penultimate race of the whole meeting but Salubrious got the champion trainer off the mark at Cheltenham in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle.

The crowds had already began to spill out into the approaching gloom of the surrounding countryside by the time Thomas Mullins’s Alderwood made it a record 14th Irish-trained winner at this week’s Cheltenham Festival.

Bobs Worth, trained by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Barry Geraghty, won the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Tony Martin and Bryan Cooper teamed up for their second Cheltenham winner in two days when Ted Veale reeled in long-time leader Tennis Cap in the Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle.

Our Conor put up a scintillating display to run away with the JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Tony McCoy will take the ride on Sir Des Champs in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.

JT McNamara could undergo surgery today after sustaining a serious neck injury in a fall at Cheltenham on Thursday.

The thoughts of many at Cheltenham today will be with leading amateur jockey JT McNamara, who remains in hospital in a coma after suffering a serious neck injury when his horse fell.

An unmistakable air of sobriety descended on the Cheltenham Festival towards the end of ‘St Patrick’s Thursday’ when news emerged that amateur jockey JT McNamara was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol after suffering a serious injury.

It’s not St Patrick’s Day until Sunday, of course, but that didn’t stop Cheltenham splashing the place green for ‘St Patrick’s Thursday’, and, fittingly, the Irish ran riot with a host of successes.

The 4th Earl of Chesterfield’s name isn’t one that many of us will have come across in our days learning history in school but the man born as Philip Dormer Stanhope left quite a mark on Ireland and much, much more besides.

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Bryan Cooper was making his way back into the weighing room after yesterday’s second race when an already seismic afternoon took a turn that not even the most outlandish of childhood dreams could have conceived.

Bobs Worth gets the vote to land what looks a high-class Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup today.

Nicky Henderson's horse doesn't make many trips to the racetrack but when he does it usually results in victory.

Yesterday was a nearly day, as Jetson and Bostons Angel both ran their hearts out to be third and fourth.

Solwhit (right) on his way to winning the Ladbrokes World Hurdle ahead of Celestial Halo at Cheltenham yesterday.

Amateur jockey JT McNamara suffered a serious neck injury in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival today, it has emerged.

Jockey Barry Geraghty would not swap Bobs Worth for anything else in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.

John McCririck’s condition is “improving” after he was detained in Cheltenham General Hospital for a second night.

This afternoon’s meeting at the Cheltenham Festival has survived an early-morning inspection and goes ahead as scheduled.

Sprinter Sacre offered the conclusive proof for his promotion to racing’s new superstar in the Sportingbet Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham.

Sprinter Sacre confirmed his superstar status with a stunning victory in the Sportingbet Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Triple Gold Cup-winning rider Jim Culloty enjoyed Festival success as a trainer when Lord Windermere took the RSA Chase at Cheltenham.

The New One showed heart and class in equal measure to win the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

Back In Focus put up a determined staying performance to give Irish trainer Willie Mullins his fourth winner of this year’s Cheltenham Festival in the John Oaksey National Hunt Chase.

Racing pundit John McCririck hopes to return to racing at Cheltenham later today after being detained in Cheltenham General Hospital overnight, his agent said.

The second day of the Cheltenham Festival will go ahead as planned after the track was declared fit to race.

Richard Hughes and Joseph O’Brien, reigning champion Flat jockeys in England and Ireland respectively, have been granted jumps licences to ride in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham on Wednesday.

I haven’t ridden since taking two falls at Leopardstown last Sunday and you won’t see me on the battlefield again until the start of Cheltenham next Tuesday.

Last Tuesday you had to wonder whether Hurricane Fly continued to be blessed with four legs.

Three days to go to Cheltenham now and the excitement is mounting.

Nicky Henderson insists Grandouet remains on course for the Stan James Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham on Tuesday despite taking an alarming drift on the betting exchanges yesterday afternoon.