Cheltenham Festival 2019 LIVE results: Horse racing action on Gold Cup day plus weather and predictions

Welcome to Standard Sport's live coverage of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival. 

The Cheltenham Festival is the biggest week in National Hunt horse racing, with more than £4.5million on offer in prize money across 28 races.

The Gold Cup hero of 2018 Native River is set to defend his crown, but will face stiff competition from a host of challengers, most notably King George VI Chase winner Clan Des Obeaux, and Irish-trained Presenting Percy.

Gordon Elliott, whose string include Grand National winner Tiger Roll, will be looking to retain his trainers title, while Davy Russell was last year's top jockey.

Follow coverage of day two, including tips, results and latest news below!

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Moment of the week

It's perhaps both the obvious answer (and cheating) to define a period of an hour as a 'moment', but Thursday afternoon was as good as it gets in the sport.

The feel-good factor around the course (no doubt helped by a run of wins for favourites) after Bryony Frost's landmark win on Frodon in the Ryanair, and then Paisley Park's stunning win in the Stayers' Hurdle to give Andrew Gemmell a Cheltenham winner was just magic.

Racing crowds have come in for an awful lot of criticism in recent months, particularly in reference to violence at courses, but they are as knowledgeable and as passionate about their sport as any fans in the world, and the ovation that both horses and jockeys got was fantastic.

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A huge result on a tough day for Joseph O'Brien, who of course lost Sir Erec earlier on today.

RESULTS

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Result - 5:30pm

1. Early Doors

2. Dallas Des Pictons

3. Joseph O'Brien

IT'S A WINNER!

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Early Doors wins the Martin Pipe! 

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Dallas Des Pictons and Early Doors up the hill!

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Still Acapella Bourgeois on the front but they're stacking up behind now. Dallas Des Pictons travelling nicely.

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Very tightly bunched now with three to jump.

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Coolanly making nice progress round the outside too.

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A circuit to travel in the Martin Pipe, those three still head proceedings, with the favourite in fourth.

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Acapella Bourgeois leads them, with Getareason second and Mr Antolini close by.

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Mount Mews refuses to start!

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AND THEY'RE OFF! 

One last hurrah, and one last false start. Eventually, we're away...

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The runners are on their way down post for the finale of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival.

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Britain now lead the Prestbury Cup 14-13. It goes down to the last.

ODDS

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One more race to go, and it'll all be over for another year. 

The current market for the Martin Pipe looks like this: 

Dallas Des Pictons 5/2

Early Doors 4/1

Cartwright 12/1

Getareason 12/1

Defi Bleu 16/1

Pym 16/1

Daybreak Boy 18/1

RESULTS

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Result - 4:50pm 

1. Croco Bay

2. Bun Doran

3. Brelan D'As

4. Forest Bihan

IT'S A WINNER!

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Croco Bay holds on! 

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Croco Bay as they go to the last, from Bun Doran.

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Croco Bay now surges on, but Not Another Muddle is moving round the outside.

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Festival Schedule and Results

Feature race at 3.30pm each day

​Tuesday  1:30pm  Supreme Novices' Hurdle (Klassical Dream 4/1) 2:10pm Arkle Challenge Trophy (Duc Des Genievres 13/2) 2:50pm Festival Handicap Chase (Beware the Bear 16/1) 3:30pm Champion Hurdle (Espoir D'Allen 16/1) 4:10pm David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle(Roksana 13/2) 4:50pm Novices' Handicap Chase (A Plus Tard 6/1) 5:30pm National Hunt Chase (Le Breuil 12/1) Wednesday 1:30pm Ballymore Novices' Hurdle (City Island 8/1) 2:10pm RSA Chase (Topofthegame 7/2) 2:50pm Coral Cup (William Henry 25/1) 3:30pm Queen Mother Champion Chase (Altior 4/9) 4:10pm Cross Country Chase (Tiger Roll 5/4) 4:50pm Fred Winter Juvenile Hurdle (Band Of Outlaws 7/2) 5:30pm Champion Bumper (Envoi Allen 2/1) Thursday 1:30pm JLT Novices' Chase (Defi Du Seuil 14/5) 2:10pm Pertemps Final (Sire Du Berlais 11/2) 2:50pm Minella Indo (40/1) 3:30pm Stayers' Hurdle (Paisley Park 15/8) 4:10pm Festival Plate (Siruh Du Lac 7/1) 4:50pm Dawn Run Mares Novices' Chase (Eglantine Du Seuil 50/1) 5:30pm Kim Muir Challenge Cup (Any Second Now 6/1) Friday 1:30pm Triumph Hurdle (Pentland Hills 20/1) 2:10pm County Hurdle (Ch'tibello (FR) H Skelton 15/2) 2:50pm Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle (Minella Indo 40/1) 3:30pm Cheltenham Gold Cup (Al Boum Photo 14/1) 4:10pm Foxhunter Chase (Hazel Hill 11/2) 4:50pm Grand Annual Chase (Croco Bay 66/1) 5:30pm Martin Pipe Handicap Hurdle (Early Doors 11/2)

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