Cheltenham Festival quiz: Put your knowledge to the test!

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Get ready for the 2024 races our Cheltenham Festival quiz

It is the highlight of the horse racing calendar and now is your chance to put your knowledge to the test by taking our Cheltenham Festival quiz.

We have 25 questions in total which are split into five rounds of five questions to test what you know about the Cheltenham Festival.

Give our Cheltenham Festival quiz a go and then click on the link at the bottom to head to the answers page to see how you did.

Cheltenham Festival 2023

1. Willie Mullins won the Gold Cup for the third time in five years in 2023, but which other trainer was victorious during that five-year period?

2. Which horse won the Unibet Champion Hurdle?

3. Name the Willie Mullins-trained horse that won the Queen Mother Champion Chase in 2023 for the second year running.

4. Which father-son duo as trainer and jockey won the 2023 Coral Cup?

5. Willie Mullins was the leading trainer once again in 2023, who was the last time that honour went to someone else?

Recent years

6. Ireland have dominated the Cheltenham Festival of late, but what was the last UK-trained winner of the Gold Cup?

7. Ruby Walsh has ridden more winners than any other jockey at the Cheltenham Festival, but what was the last of his 59 winners?

8. Teahupoo is a leading fancy for this year’s Stayers’ Hurdle, but which horse won the race 10 years ago in 2014?

9. Allaho and which other hhorse have won the Ryanair Chase twice?

10. The Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle is one of the more recent additions to the Cheltenham Festival, but which trainer has won it the most in its short lifespan?

Going for gold

11. Who was the owner of the five-time Gold Cup winner Golden Miller?

12. How many horses have won the blue riband three or more times?

13. What was the name of the Arthur Stephenson-trained nine-year-old who triumphed for the north in 1987?

14. Who landed a famous Gold Cup win for France in 1994?

15. Which famous chaser had to settle for second behind the legendary Dawn Run in 1986?

Henderson’s heroes

16. Nicky Henderson has trained 73 Cheltenham Festival winners, but what was the first?

17. Which Cold Feet actor owned Henderson’s Ryanair Chase champion Riverside Theatre?

18. Which 40/1 shot completed Henderson’s famous four-timer on the Wednesday of the 2012 Festival?

19. Which Cheltenham Festival race has Henderson won the most?

20. Who is Henderson’s only winner of the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle?

Pick ’n’ mix

21. Which Cheltenham Festival and Grand National-winning trainer steered subsequent Gold Cup runner-up Sir Des Champs to victory in the 2011 Martin Pipe?

22. Davy Russell had his last hurrah at Prestbury Park, but which Grade One chase has he had the most success in over the years at the meeting?

23. Which TV pundit was unshipped from Oscar Delta when poised to win the Foxhunter Chase in 2013?

24. Gordon Elliott has saddled 37 Cheltenham Festival winners, but what was his first?

25. Which two jockeys, and future in-laws, fought out the finish of the 2010 National Hunt Chase aboard Poker De Sivola and Becauseicouldntsee respectively?

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