Cheltenham Festival 2025: Three things we learned on Tuesday

Golden Ace, a 25/1 outsider trained by Jeremy Scott and ridden by the unheralded Lorcan Williams, won the Champion Hurdle.

Golden Ace and Lorcan Williams won the Unibet Champion Hurdle (Grade 1). Pic: Healy Racing

If you are not in, you won’t win

Constitution Hill, the odds-on favourite didn’t win the Champion Hurdle yesterday. He fell four out, apparently going well but it was much too early to conclude how he would have fared in the second half of the race.