The April Meeting

There is always a wonderfully relaxed feel to this meeting, with the chance to explore what Cheltenham has to offer at a slightly less frenetic pace than at The Festival. For 2008, we have added a Friday evening fixture to the traditional two days, which is bound to prove popular. A fantastic evening's entertainment, featuring X-factor runners up Ray Quinn and Ben Mills, follows the racing. There is also another top class National Hunt sale organised by Brightwells in the Centaur on the evening following the first day of the meeting, which last year produced £2.3 million in aggregate turnover. Proving that there is always something going on at Cheltenham, The April Meeting in 2007 was the fixture at which Paul Nicholls broke Martin Pipe's record for the most prize money ever won in a Jump season and we were also able to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Arkle, arguably the greatest steeplechaser of all time.