Nicky Henderson Cheltenham Festival winners and 2024 runners

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11 March 2024

Nicky Henderson Cheltenham Festival winners and 2024 runners

If there’s one man that can bring the challenge for the home team at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival, it’s Nicky Henderson.

The veteran Seven Barrows handler is the second most-successful trainer in Cheltenham Festival history having saddled a total of 73 winners heading into this year’s meeting.

He has trained some of the best in recent years including Sprinter Sacre, Buveur d’Air and Altior – and Champion Hurdle winner Constitution Hill, who has been ruled out of this year’s festival.

With his best horse out, Sir Gino is likely to be Henderson’s leading chance of a victory in the Triumph Hurdle on Friday. Jonbon runs in the Champion Chase and Shishkin is expected in the Gold Cup but they face tough competition.

Henderson has bagged a winner at the last 15 editions of the Cheltenham Festival and been the Top Trainer on three occasions, although his chances of lifting that trophy for a fourth time appear remote because of Willie Mullins’ battalion.

Here’s Nicky Henderson’s Cheltenham Festival record that makes him the leading British trainer in the history of the fiesta.

Nicky Henderson Cheltenham Festival winners

1985

Champion Hurdle – See You Then
Triumph Hurdle – First Bout
Plate Handicap Chase – The Tsarevich

1986

Champion Hurdle – See You Then
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle – River Ceiriog
Plate Handicap Chase – The Tsarevich

1987

Champion Hurdle – See You Then
Triumph Hurdle – Alone Success

1989

Stayers’ Hurdle – Rustle

1990

Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup – Master Bob
Cathcart Challenge Cup – Brown Windsor

1991

Arkle Chase – Remittance Man

1992

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Remittance Man
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle – Flown

1993

Arkle Chase – Travado
County Handicap Hurdle – Thumbs Up

1994

Cathcart Challenge Cup – Raymylette

1997

County Handicap Hurdle – Barna Boy

1999

Triumph Hurdle – Katarino
Cathcart Challenge Cup – Stormyfairweather

2000

Stayers’ Hurdle – Bacchanal
Arkle Chase – Tiutchev
Festival Trophy Handicap Chase – Marlborough
Cathcart Challenge Cup – Stormyfairweather

2002

Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup – The Bushkeeper

2005

RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase – Trabolgan
Plate Handicap Chase – Liberthine
Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup – Juveigneur

2006

Ryanair Chase – Fondmort
Plate Handicap Chase – Non So
Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase – Greenhope

2009

Champion Hurdle – Punjabi
Triumph Hurdle – Zaynar
Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle – Andytown

2010

Champion Hurdle – Binocular
Triumph Hurdle – Soldatino
Coral Cup – Spirit River

2011

Cheltenham Gold Cup – Long Run
Spa Novices’ Hurdle – Bobs Worth

2012

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Finian’s Rainbow
Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle – Simonsig
Arkle Chase – Sprinter Sacre
RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase – Bobs Worth
Ryanair Chase – Riverside Theatre
Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’ Handicap Hurdle – Une Artiste
Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase – Bellvano

2013

Cheltenham Gold Cup – Bobs Worth
Queen Mother Champion Chase – Sprinter Sacre
Arkle Chase – Simonsig
Centenary Novices’ Handicap Chase – Rajdhani Express

2014

Coral Cup – Whisper

2015

Triumph Hurdle – Peace And Co
Pertemps Final – Call The Cops

2016

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Sprinter Sacre
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle – Altior

2017

Champion Hurdle – Buveur d’Air
Arkle Chase – Altior
RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase – Might Bite

2018

Champion Hurdle – Buveur d’Air
Queen Mother Champion Chase – Altior

2019

Queen Mother Champion Chase – Altior
Triumph Hurdle – Pentland Hills
Festival Trophy Handicap Chase – Beware The Bear
Coral Cup – William Henry