The opening day of the Cheltenham Festival provided thrills and excitement aplenty with the biggest twist coming in the headline Champion Hurdle race. Golden Ace took the trophy for jockey Lorcan ...

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Golden Ace is a shock 25-1 winner of the Champion Hurdle after previous victors Constitution Hill and State Man fall.

Jockey Lorcan Williams and Golden Ace avoid State Man before galloping off to a surprise victory in the Champion Hurdle - Reuters/Matthew Childs Golden Ace, a 25-1-shot trained by a former farmer ...

Golden Ace was the shock winner in a dramatic Champion Hurdle, the feature race of the first day of the Cheltenham Festival ...

Cheltenham witnessed the most dramatic of runnings of the Unibet Champion Hurdle on the first day of the Champion Hurdle. Odds-on Constitution Hill was the red-hot favourite and unbeaten winner of ...

Having decided against saddling his star mare Brighterdaysahead, Gordon Elliott instead relies on Wodhooh, who stretched her unbeaten record to seven in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Hurdle at ...

Golden Ace, a 25-1-shot trained by a former farmer on Exmoor, won the most dramatic Unibet Champion Hurdle in the championship’s 98-year history. Two former winners ended up on the deck with ...

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