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The turf

My highlights from the Cheltenham Festival

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

29 March 2025

9:00 AM

When Poniros, trained by Willie Mullins, swept home in this year’s Triumph Hurdle as the first 100-1 Cheltenham Festival winner since Norton’s Coin won the Gold Cup in 1990, one of the very few people who had backed him was my regular racing companion Derek, known in this column as the Form Guru.

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