Cheltenham Festival Ends with Four Horse Death – Two on Last Day

Cheltenham raised a cheer – but fatalities and fallouts tainted bounce-back festival

Attendances and British-trained winners were on the up but low points included more starting trouble and jockey spatsAttendance: up. British winners: up. Bookies’ profits: through the roof. Punters will wince at the last of those after a ferociously difficult four days at Cheltenham, with winners at 66-1, 50-1, 40-1 and 33-1 among the biggest skinners for the books. The Paddy Power client in Ireland who was paid €558,000 (£484,000) after putting…

Injured horse returned to work six months early before jockey’s fatal fall

A jockey was fatally crushed underneath a racehorse that shattered a bone on her front leg and slipped onto her front shoulder in Gulgong. An inquest will examine whether the animal’s prior injury contributed to its fall.

4 horses die at Cheltenham Festival as charity urges better safety and welfare measures

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Third horse dies at Cheltenham, in his last race

A third horse has died at this year's Cheltenham festival.

Cheltenham Festival ends with four horse death – two on last day

Envoi Allen and Saint Le Fort both died on Friday on the last day of Cheltenham Festival.

Cheltenham Festival: Day 4 recap and reports

All the action, as it happened, on the final afternoon of this year's Cheltenham Festival. The feature Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup went the way of Gaelic Warrior, who was an ultra-impressive winner of chasing's blue riband under Paul Townend for trainer Willie Mullins.