1983 Cheltenham festival highlights

1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtICsZIT4oI

1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mj1dXgny58&t=16s

Some 88 Aintree footage too therethere too, what price Durham Edition at the 2nd last when he takes it up and quickly goes 4 lengths clear!

i was on him at 25/1 if i remember correctly

Great memories. If only we had known just how good Gaye Brief was before the race! Anyone notice the obvious major change to Cheltenham since 1983?

2 courses, an inner and and an outer, both hurdles and steeplechase?

Some great nostalgia there.the results captions took me right back,proper grid,hand written style script,even tote returns there.btw anyone notice how generous the tote divs were.

A 9/1 shot at sedgefield payed £50,& 8/11 shot £1.80  for a place!

Where was the X country course? Not even on the drawing board back then.

should of stayed there

Anyone remember the Park Course (early 90s) which was discontinued to make way for the Cross Country course in about 1995.

I do remember and it is now used as the 2.5 mile start which was also missing in 1983 I think.

Plus NH Chase went round the top bend .

Much earlier when I first went to Cheltenham, the Gold Cup start was near the Evesham Road and they jumped 2 fences in the area which is now the tented village before jumping the one going away from the stands. The course also looped round behind where the stands are and joined back up where the 3 mile hurdle start is now. There was a narrow alleyway between the 2 parts of the old stands through which the horses went to and from the paddock/unsaddling area. The present paddock is the third I have seen at Cheltenham.

25 of the best handicaps from the 1982 NH season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu3cG5pkqig