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"The Cheltenham Festival is nowadays the biggest event in the racing year - in visitor numbers eclipsing Royal Ascot, the Grand National or the Derby. In 2011 it is a hundred years since the 1911 running of the National Hunt Chase marked the birth of the Festival, providing the perfect occasion for Robin Oakley's new history. This is a work of both history and celebration - telling the story of how three days of jump racing beneath Cleeve Hill in Cheltenham became a vast sporting event attractin
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- Author
- Oakley, Robin
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group UK
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781845136369
- Category
- sports
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Sports, Horse Racing
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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