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Cheltenham Festival

Cheltenham Racecourse, Glos

15-18 MARCH

A FOUR-day sporting spectacular, the Festival is the most prestigious race meeting in the British National Hunt calendar. Hear the famous roar as the flags go up for the curtain-opening Supreme Novices, and marvel as the best staying chasers in the land battle it out for the blue riband Gold Cup.

Randox Grand National Festival

Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool

7-9 APRIL

RUN over the iconic Aintree fences, the Grand National is the race the world stops to watch. Three days of top-class racing, featuring nine Grade Ones, culminate in the most famous steeplechase of all, watched by 500