It is the second most prestigious chase in England, after the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Master Smudge

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Alverton

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Midnight Court

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Davy Lad

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Royal Frolic

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Ten Up

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Captain Christy

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – The Dikler

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Glencaraig Lady

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – L ' Escargot

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – L ' Escargot

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Best Mate wins a third consecutive time

* Cheltenham Gold Cup –

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Easter Hero

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Little Owl

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – race cancelled

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Best Mate

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – See More Business

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Cool Dawn

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Mr Mulligan

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Imperial Call

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Master Oats

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – The Fellow

* Cheltenham Gold Cup – Jodami

As a result, every year Irish horse racing fans travel in huge numbers to the highlight event of the National Hunt calendar, the Cheltenham Festival, and in recent years Irish owned or bred horses have dominated the event.

The highlight of the Cheltenham Festival is the Gold Cup.

Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and elsewhere and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea.

* Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music 18 July – 10 August

This includes four of the five ' Classics ' of Flat racing: The Oaks and The Derby at Epsom Downs and the 2, 000 Guineas and the 1, 000 Guineas, and major National Hunt meetings include the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National at Aintree

Also located in County Kildare are two other courses, Punchestown Racecourse, home of the National Hunt Festival of Ireland, and Naas Racecourse, which runs both National Hunt and Flat meetings and is used by top race horse trainers as a test for horses preparing for the Cheltenham festival.

* Cheltenham Literature Festival, October 6-15

Despite claims of " dumbing down " from a group established customers on Betfair's forum, there was a significant increase in membership and deposits during the Cheltenham Festival.

At the Cheltenham Literary Festival on 17 October 2010, Lady Antonia announced that her next work would be on the subject of the Great Reform Bill 1832.

The 1999 Greenbelt Festival took place at Cheltenham but saw the lowest audiences since the 1970s.

* July 2 – July 14 – The seventh annual Cheltenham Music Festival is held in Cheltenham, England, with a performance of Brian Easdale's opera, The Sleeping Children, premieres of the first symphonies of Malcolm Arnold, John Gardner, and Arnold van Wyk, Franz Reizenstein's Serenade for Winds, and Maurice Jacobson's Symphonic Suite, as well as performances of works by Humphrey Searle, Robert Masters, Benjamin Frankel, and Philip Sainton.

This race and the meeting eventually developed into the Cheltenham Festival and the organisers were part of the founding of organised steeplechasing through the Grand National Hunt Committee

For example, a model might pose in a short white skirt with a tennis racquet during the Wimbledon tennis championships, or in jodhpurs with a riding crop during the Cheltenham Festival.

Nursery Rhymes, Cheltenham Literary Festival

The May Day weekend saw Lee curating a programme of free jazz at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, at the invitation of festival director Tony Dudley-Evans.

It received its premiere at the Cheltenham Music Festival.

* Cheltenham Festival, Royal Ascot and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

In UK it performs at Aldeburgh Festival, the City of London Festival and the Cheltenham Festival.

This change has not applied in National Hunt racing, though amateur riders Nina Carberry and Katie Walsh ( sister of Ruby Walsh ) have gained success in Ireland and ridden winners at the Cheltenham Festival.

Kelly was born in County Kildare and achieved his first Cheltenham Festival success in March 2003 on Hardy Eustace in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices ' Hurdle.

* The inaugural Champion Hurdle is run as part of the Cheltenham Festival.