White-hot favourite Franchoek heads 15 entries for the JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham on Friday.

Check out today's tips for the bumper 10-race card at the Cheltenham Festival.

Cheltenham are ready for action as they prepare for a welter of top-class racing over the next two days.

Bookmakers are anticipating a record-breaking afternoon of betting on Friday with the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup heading an incredible nine-race card.

Nick Mitchell expects a wide-open Ryanair Chase to develop into a real thriller at Cheltenham tomorrow.

Cheltenham are not expecting further unwelcome interventions from the weather for the remainder of the week after the second day of the prestigious festival was abandoned due to high winds.

A Cheltenham race-goer was today arrested on suspicion of fraud after he was caught in possession of €5,000 worth of counterfeit notes.

Victory in the feature of the opening day of Cheltenham - the Smurfit Champion Hurdle – has gone to the Alan King trained ‘Katchit’.

Tidal Bay, trained by Howard Johnson and ridden by Denis O'Regan, won the Irish Independent Arkle Challenge Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival.

Owner JP McManus dominated the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices’ Hurdle but it was the Robert Thornton-ridden Captain Cee Bee who got the better of Tony McCoy on Binocular up the hill.

Cheltenham clerk of the course Simon Claisse reports further ease in the ground ahead of the first day of the Festival meeting.

Kauto Star's turn of foot can prove his trump card against stablemate Denman in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, according to former leading jump jockey Steve Smith Eccles.

Tom Cooper’s Cheltenham challengers River Liane and Forpadydeplasterer are safely on British shores ahead of their big Festival dates.

Officials at Cheltenham are currently experiencing the calm before the storm - literally.