{"id":1734,"date":"2020-03-01T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:16:36","slug":"top-10-cheltenham-festival-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/sports\/horse-racing\/cheltenham-festival\/top-10-cheltenham-festival-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Cheltenham Festival Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over 250,000 people from all over the world are expected to attend next week\u2019s Cheltenham Festival<\/a>, with millions more watching from home. It\u2019s a place where Cheltenham Festival legends are made in the most dramatic of sporting amphitheatres. It is quite simply \u2018the greatest show on turf\u2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to get you in the mood, we’ll\nbegin our countdown with our Top 10 all-time Cheltenham Festival legends! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Kauto Star<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From the moment Kauto Star was bought from France in 2004 to race for owner Clive Smith and trainer Paul Nicholls, he became a household name. Over the course of the next eight seasons, Kauto missed only one Cheltenham Festival. From those seven appearances, he ran in six Gold Cups; winning two and being placed in two others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009 Kauto Star became the first horse to ever regain the Cheltenham Gold Cup<\/a> when he recaptured the most prestigious prize in horse racing from the previous year\u2019s vanquisher, stable-mate and long-time rival, Denman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything summed up his legendary status, it was during the 2012 Gold Cup. After being pulled-up with more than a circuit to go by Ruby Walsh, the realisation amongst the crowd that retirement beckoned led to an outbreaking of applause and cheering during the middle of the biggest race of the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5AVjbipDpvo\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

9. Altior<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Altior is, perhaps, often unfairly overlooked as a Cheltenham Festival great. He has now won Grade 1s at four consecutive Festivals, beating high-class fields on a variety of different grounds. His ability to work up through the gears and power up the famous Cheltenham hill has become a hallmark of the Festival in the last few years and we shouldn’t take it for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His biggest test to date lies in wait at next week\u2019s Cheltenham Festival however, as he prepares to defend his Queen Mother Champion Chase<\/a> crown, when running against the young pretenders in Defi Du Seuil and Chacun Pour Soi. If he manages to win the Champion Chase for a third time, he will surely catapult to nearer the top of this illustrious list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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