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One of the greatest jockeys to ride around Prestbury Park, Barry Geraghty chats to 888sport about the best way to ride at Cheltenham
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Geraghty talks about his Cheltenham Festival highs and lows while also offering his unique insight into the moments races are won and lost at the meeting
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Follow Barry's best bets and tips across all four days at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival
Barry Geraghty rode 43 Cheltenham Festival winners, so knows almost better than anyone the ins and outs of riding what is probably the most unique track in National Hunt horse racing.
With the Cheltenham Festival 2022 just a week away, 888sport horse racing ambassador Geraghty, who has won all of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and Stayers' Hurdle at least once, walks the course and explains just what a challenge it presents for both horse and rider.
What are the differences between the Old and New courses? Which are the fences that catch out inexperienced novices? How significant are the undulations? Did Ruby Walsh or AP McCoy ride Cheltenham better?
Geraghty answers these questions and more as he recalls the moment the great Moscow Flyer came down at one of the open ditches in the 2004 Queen Mother Champion Chase, while he describes how the energy-sapping uphill finish provides as big a tactical test as it does an examination of stamina, which played into his hands on Finian's Rainbow in the 2012 renewal of the race.
And what of his miraculous ride on Champ in the 2019 RSA Novices' Chase?
The Nicky Henderson-trained gelding come from an impossible position at the third last fence to snatch glory in the dying strides from the likes of Minella Indo, trained by Henry de Bromhead, and the Willie Mullins-trained Allaho, in what is widely considered to be one of the great Cheltenham Festival rides.
