Jockey Club confirms change to Cheltenham Festival as ‘traditional’ feature is canned

THE Cheltenham Festival and Aintree’s Grand National meeting will look different next season.

The Jockey Club confirmed on Tuesday that their two biggest racecourses will have new hurdles in place for the start of the season in October.

AFPThe traditional birch hurdles will be replaced by padded hurdles for next year’s Cheltenham Festival[/caption] GettyThe new padded hurdles, seen in use here at Exeter, won’t stop jockeys being unseated but they have proven safer to horses[/caption]...