General news on the run in to the Festival

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NJH will send a team to work at Kempton on Friday including Captain Conan, Josses Hill, Kid Cassidy, Oscar Whisky and Royal Irish Hussar.
 
There are 24 entries in total for the David Nicholson Mares Hurdle, Quevega and Annie Power both entered.
 
26th February 2014 - Entries are revealed today for the OLBG Mares' Hurdle, Weatherbys Champion Bumper and CGA Foxhunter Chase Challenge Cup meaning that the horses engaged in all 27 Festival contests are now in the public domain.

All eyes will be on the Willie Mullins-trained Quevega, who is one of 24 entries in the Grade Two OLBG Mares' Hurdle on Champion Day, Tuesday, March 11. The 10-year-old will bid to make history by bidding to win the race for a sixth consecutive year. No horse has won the same race six times at The Festival.

Quevega's opponents could include her stablemate Annie Power, who is also engaged in the Stan James Champion Hurdle and Ladbrokes World Hurdle, and last year's runner-up Sirene D'Ainay, one of two French-trained entries alongside Uddy.

Leading home-based contenders include the John Quinn-trained Cockney Sparrow, winner of an OLBG-backed Listed event at Wetherby in November, Down Ace, who is unbeaten in five starts under Rules for Fergal O'Brien, and the Harry Fry-trained Highland Retreat, winner of the Grade Two OLBG.com Mares' Hurdle at Ascot in January.

Quevega's handler Willie Mullins is bidding for a ninth success in the Grade One Weatherbys Champion Bumper and accounts for five of this year's 41 entries. They include a duo representing last year's winning owners Andrea and Graham Wylie, Black Hercules and Shaneshill, and a pair who both scored at the weekend, Killultagh Vic and Westhorpe.

Other leading contenders for the season's top National Hunt Flat Race, staged on Ladies Day, Wednesday, March 12, include Robert Stephens' stable star Modus, the Dermot Weld-trained Vigil, who scored at Leopardstown on February 9, and Golantilla, who finished second to Killultagh Vic on Sunday and finished third in last year's Weatherbys Champion Bumper.

There are 34 entries in the CGA Foxhunter Chase, staged on Gold Cup Day, Friday, March 14, including the cream of the hunter chase and point-to-point talent from Britain and Ireland.

Mossey Joe, who was bought for £160,000 by owner Barry Connell at the Brightwells Sale at Cheltenham in January, is one of two entries representing trainer Enda Bolger, along with On The Fringe, a hunter chase winner at Down Royal on December 26.

Alan Hill, who rode the 1985 CGA Foxhunter Chase winner Elmboy, has saddled two runner-ups in the last six years and he has two chances of going one better this season via Harbour Court, a point-to-point winner at Cottenham on Saturday, and Ravethebrave, successful at Badbury Rings on Sunday.

Last season's champion British point-to-pointer Palypso De Creek represents Lincolnshire handler Jill Dawson while 14-year-old That's Rhythm heads to Cheltenham on the back of a Musselburgh hunter chase win on February 2 for trainer Sally Duckett.
 
Animal Aid will be in Cheltenham on 7&8 March,a few days before the 2014 Festival commences, in order to build local opposition to the event.

They can try :whistle:
 
My wife know quite well how she has to behave in the Meeting
She is mexican and she didnt know what was the cheltenham Meeting,
But nowdays she understands it quite well,
 
I own to visiting Lakeside on the way home once and buying a pushchair ( now known as a buggy). Loads of stuff from Toys R Us. Cost more than winnings net of expenses but no questions the following year!
 
Tout Seul said:
I own to visiting Lakeside on the way home once and buying a pushchair ( now known as a buggy). Loads of stuff from Toys R Us. Cost more than winnings net of expenses but no questions the following year!
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A very sound investment
 
Tout Seul said:
I own to visiting Lakeside on the way home once and buying a pushchair ( now known as a buggy). Loads of stuff from Toys R Us. Cost more than winnings net of expenses but no questions the following year!
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So it's over 20 years since you've taken a present home?:whistle:
 
Not Cheltenham related but in the same theme, my sister who had been married for several years and been through every fertility treatment available in this country but without success. We won a 60k premier handicap up the Curragh with a 72 rated horse and sent her to an Austrian specialist for a month. She now has two beautiful daughters. Some good comes out of our depravity sometimes.
 
On The Bridle said:
Not Cheltenham related but in the same theme, my sister who had been married for several years and been through every fertility treatment available in this country but without success. We won a 60k premier handicap up the Curragh with a 72 rated horse and sent her to an Austrian specialist for a month. She now has two beautiful daughters. Some good comes out of our depravity sometimes.
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Lovely mate, proud of you:thumbsup:
 
On The Bridle said:
Not Cheltenham related but in the same theme, my sister who had been married for several years and been through every fertility treatment available in this country but without success. We won a 60k premier handicap up the Curragh with a 72 rated horse and sent her to an Austrian specialist for a month. She now has two beautiful daughters. Some good comes out of our depravity sometimes.
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Are you the same man I met? :) seriously, fair play to you.
 
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