With Cheltenham Festival been and gone already, and the first festival without spectators in the history of the meet, it still ensured that the festival had plenty of entertainment throughout as Cheltenham always does. Due to that, we thought we’d have a look back over the festival at some of the most memorable moments and summarize our review of the Cheltenham Festival this season.
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First of all, looking at one of the most disappointing moments of the festival was when we thought Envoi Allen, many punters NAP of the week, unbeaten streak come to an end has he fell at the fourth fence in the Marsh Novices’ Chase. This was hugely surprising to many of us, and certainly something that we didn’t expect to happen, especially to a horse of the statue of Envoi Allen. Luckily the horse was okay, and we expect him to return in some form of fashion next season.
However, it wasn’t all doom and gloom for Jack Kennedy, the jockey for Envoi Allen, who put in the ride of the week on Thursday mounted on Mount Ida in the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup. Mount Ida was heavy favourite for the race priced at 3/1 however right at the start of the race, she was jumping horrendously and looked out of the race and nearly pulled up. However, Kennedy turned fortunes around where she arrived on the bridle on the turn for home and went from last to first on the final stretch.
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However, if we are going to talk about jockey of the week, then there is no other jockey in contention for the title than Rachael Blackmore who was just fabulous from start to finish at Cheltenham last week. Both Sir AP McCoy and Ruby Walsh hailed her as the best jockey on the circuit at the moment after six wins at the festival last week. She also made history at the festival as she become the first female to ever win the Champion Hurdle on the unbeaten Honeysuckle and Cheltenham Festival was certainly Blackmores’s festival in 2021.
Suzanne Ashton, Founder of Everything Horse (Est, 2012), has a BA Hons in Marketing Management and a Diploma in Equine Science. Suzanne has ridden and owned horses all her life and has twelve years of experience in marketing, writing, design, SEO, and website creation.