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Cheltenham festival 2002

17 March 2002

  • Cashing in on the Gold Cup bonanza

    March 17: Nick Mathiason views the Cheltenham pageant in the company of racecourse boss Edward Gillespie.

15 March 2002

  • Knight's Best Mate crowned

    March 15: In the biggest Gold Cup field for 20 years Jim Culloty riding the 7-1 shot Best Mate was a class apart.

  • Diary

    · Best Mate's classy win in yesterday's Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup gave the Festival faithful exactly the kind of champion they crave. A young horse who jumps, stays, travels sweetly in a race and has the priceless ability to quicken up at the business end.

  • McCoy's Festival dream turns into a nightmare

    Champion jockey Tony McCoy will have to wait until the penultimate race to avoid a whitewash, writes Richard Williams.

14 March 2002

  • Cheltenham Gold Cup race card

    Number

    Horse and form

    Trainer

    Jockey

    Age and weight

  • Rest of the card

    March 14: Get Out Of Jail: Ron Cox marks your card for the final day of Cheltenham.

    • Cheltenham Diary

    • Best Mate wins the Gold Cup

    • Fine for Pipe, even worse for McCoy

13 March 2002

  • Cheltenham Diary

    March 13: All the tittle-tattle and tell-all that's fit to print from the foot of the Cotswolds.

12 March 2002

  • Istabraq to make up for lost time

    March 12: It is the outcome all jumping fans want to see. But sentiment has nothing to do with the belief that Istabraq can win a record fourth successive Smurfit Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.

  • Westender can take centre stage

    Ron Cox marks your card for Day One of the 2002 Cheltenham Festival.

  • Hors La Loi wins Champion Hurdle

    Hors La Loi III won the Smurfit Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, after hot favourite Istabraq pulled up after the first jump with a leg injury.

11 March 2002

  • One year on, Cheltenham's hardest-luck stories

  • Broken neck ends Maguire's hopes

  • Polar Red warm favourite to join the County set

  • Interview: Charlie Swan

10 March 2002

  • Footballers' dads

    Eddie Fremantle

    At last Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler will see their horses run at Cheltenham. In their absence their fathers have been their cheerleaders, as Eddie Freemantle reports.

  • Why hope springs Eternal

    March 10: Eternal Spring looks the one to thwart the Irish banker, Like-A-Butterfly, in the Gerrard Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2.00) which opens the Cheltenham Festival.

  • Pipe's Red-hot tip

    March 10: Polar Red may have beaten Impek by only a head, but it was enough to earn him a 5-2 quote for his attempt at the sponsors' £60,000 bonus at Cheltenham.

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