Cheltenham Festival 2025: Three things we will learn on Wednesday

Can Skelton get his threepeat?

Jockey Harry Skelton with face injuries after being kicked by a horse on Sunday on day one of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Pic: David Davies for The Jockey Club/PA Wire.

Will the alterations to the novice chase programme be vindicated?

It’s been 20 years since the big change was made and the debate still lingers, sometimes rages, along. Should the Festival have been extended to four days? The pros and cons remain broadly the same as when the expansion was implemented in 2005.