Cheltenham Festival 2009 Review

This year's Cheltenham Festival adds another chapter of history.

The Queen will have a runner in the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the first time next week with a horse for her by her dead mother, led a wave of paris on Buckingham Palace.

Emotions are important as the horse as the triumph of the Queen distinctive colors - purple, scarlet and black - have never graced the winner of the Cheltenham Festival Housing.

The end of the Queen Mother, a regular member of the Cheltenham Festival, never succeeded in carrying out the price. It was Queen Elizabeth, the only property in the Royal Festival winner since World War II, when Dave Dick Antiaris rolled to victory in 1965, but even that is not the blue ribbon event.

The Festival takes place from mid-March each year around St. Patrick's Day (March 17) and, therefore, attract tens of thousands of fans of Irish horse racing, and dozens of Irish horses, and jockeys for racing trainers themselves. The Festival will take place at Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds deep in the countryside of South West England. Traditionally, the event was held for three days, but in 2005, an additional day was added and the new format has been maintained.

The Gold Cup

There are twenty-five matches in all, the Cheltenham Gold Cup is the culmination of the festival. The race is for horses five years and above and is implemented through a three and two and a half miles Furlong, 5 or 331 meters, with twenty-two fences.

The first winner, 12 March 1924, he was five years old Red Splash. The legendary horse, Golden Miller won the race five times from 1932-1936 with a variety of jockeys, when Cottage Rake, ARKLS and Best Mate won three races.

Kauto Star in 2007, silenced his critics in scintillating fashion and propelled himself into the upper echelons of the history of the race when the road Wednesday in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

2008 Gold Cup is a duel between the two best horses specimens Britain has seen for decades, stable mates Denman and Kauto Star. For weeks racegoers could talk of nothing but the confrontation between the two rivals, who went to the other side of Somerset coach is Paul Nicholls yard. Their proximity until their stay, the balance of their qualities, some could one cigarette paper between their possibilities. Color figures were placed on their relative merits.

If the race was, 60,000 fans packed the stands for big eyes, athletes wishing to attend to history, they say there. And in an atmosphere so charged it sizzled, Denman blitzed the field. Accompanied by his immense competence jockey, he led from the front, who seemed dazed Kauto Star in the wash.

Who will win in the circle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2009?