After a thrilling Champion Day Tuesday, The 2026 Cheltenham Festival moves onto its second day — Ladies Day, which promises to deliver more of the same incredible drama.
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The racing kicks off at 1.20 p.m. with the Grade 1 Turners Novices’ Hurdle, where we have a big field of 22 in what is a hugely open affair.
Focus quickly turns to the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase, another Grade 1 race in which Romeo Coolio leads the market as Gordon Elliott looks to get on the board for the first time.
At 2.40 p.m. we have one of the hardest races to predict in the BetMGM Cup Handicap Hurdle, with a huge field of 24 sure to ensure a tense finish.
The most unique race of the Festival comes at 3.20 p.m. in the form of the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase, a race in which jockey Keith Donoghue has a sensational record and will be hoping to go again on Stumptown.
That builds nicely into the feature race of Ladies Day, as odds-on favourite Majborough looks to prove the bookies right and take the Queen Mother Champion Chase.
The racing is not done there though, with the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual always an entertaining race and with a field of 20, we may well see more fireworks again this time around.
And the day is all wrapped up by another unique Cheltenham race — the Champion Bumper, which is the only race of the Festival that is not over hurdles or fences and is flat — Willie Mullins has made it his race and has five entries this time around.
