Best festival ever?

opengoal

Just wondering peoples views on this? Certainly best for irish.

Loved the Gold Cup, brilliant race.. the established against the up and coming and all that. Big bucks also class as was all the championship races.

I backed nine winners at the festival so it was certaintly best for me. What do you guys think of the week overall? How does it rank with previous festivals?

I am committed now to saving up and heading over next year.

WHIP IT!

opengoal wrote: »

Just wondering peoples views on this? Certainly best for irish.

Loved the Gold Cup, brilliant race.. the established against the up and coming and all that. Big bucks also class as was all the championship races.

I backed nine winners at the festival so it was certaintly best for me. What do you guys think of the week overall? How does it rank with previous festivals?

I am committed now to saving up and heading over next year.

I certainly enjoyed it more than any in the past few years. As it happened, I had Wed & Thurs off this week - which is unusual for me on Chelenham week - so I really got to sit down and watch all the big ones and enjoy it.

Some great races, unbelieveable performances and a lot of sentiment today with Kauto Star and Denman showing there's life in the old guard yet.

Just wondering, have you ever been in Cheltenham before? Some people don't enjoy it as much 'live' as it's so crowded etc and you miss a lot.

What does everyone else think? I've never been but I feel like I wouldn't enjoy it as much being over there as I would with the feet up, seeing every little thing that happens on tv

Mr.Conners

Definitely the most enjoyable and profitable in the last few years.

From Hurricane Fly proving the English doubters wrong, Big Bucks showing how classy a horse he is, Denman and Kauto powering down the straight only to lead the way for a new superstar to take the Gold Cup.

The whole thing was magic.

opengoal

WHIP IT! wrote: »

I certainly enjoyed it more than any in the past few years. As it happened, I had Wed & Thurs off this week - which is unusual for me on Chelenham week - so I really got to sit down and watch all the big ones and enjoy it.

Some great races, unbelieveable performances and a lot of sentiment today with Kauto Star and Denman showing there's life in the old guard yet.

Just wondering, have you ever been in Cheltenham before? Some people don't enjoy it as much 'live' as it's so crowded etc and you miss a lot.

What does everyone else think? I've never been but I feel like I wouldn't enjoy it as much being over there as I would with the feet up, seeing every little thing that happens on tv

Yeah was there in 2008 to see the denman v kauto star gold cup (mk1) also the masterclass by mastermind. There is nothing like being there to be honest. The feeling that you are witnessing history first hand does it for me.

chinguetti

My most profitable festival (Wednesday with 3 winners and 2 e/w was surreal) ever.

Time will tell how good a festival it was but there's a lot of new champs who will have some promising novices to defend against next year.