QUALIFICATION FOR THE CHELTENHAM INTERMEDIATE FINAL HUNTERS’ CHASE AMENDED

Qualification for the Cheltenham Intermediate Point-to-Point Championship Final Hunters’ Steeple Chase (Class 4) at the Cheltenham Evening meeting on Friday 1st May, 2020 has been amended so that the first four horses past the post in any intermediate point-to-point race during the current season, with the exception of four-year-olds, will be eligible to enter.​

CHELTENHAM

May (Evening) Meeting, 2020

FRIDAY (EVENING), MAY 1ST

(NEW COURSE)

TO CLOSE ON APRIL 25th

THE CHELTENHAM INTERMEDIATE POINT-TO-POINT CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

HUNTERS’ STEEPLE CHASE (CLASS 4)

Total race value £8000

Distributed in accordance with Stakes and Prize Money Code

£4796 to the winning horse

The second to receive £1498, the third £748, the fourth £374,

the fifth £187 and the sixth £94

for five yrs old and upwards, which during the current Point-to-Point season and prior to April 25th, 2020,

have finished first, second, third or fourth in an Intermediate Point-to-Point Steeple Chase

THREE MILES ABOUT TWO FURLONGS (3m 2f)

Enter by noon, April 25th and pay £40 stake

Declare by 10.00 a.m. April 30th

Weights: 11st 12lb each

Mares allowed………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 7lb

Penalties, a winner of a steeple chase…………………………………………………………………………………………. 3lb

Of 2 steeple chases or of a Class 1 to Class 3 steeple chase……………………………………………………………… 6lb

To be ridden by Amateur Riders

Presentations will be made to the winning owner, trainer and rider and a £100 award given to the person in

charge of the best turned out horse in this race.

The British Horseracing Authority has modified Rule (F)102 and Rule (F)103 and Part J of Schedule (F)8 of the

Rules of Racing for the purposes of this race and, if elimination is necessary, those horses which have been placed

first or second in a qualifier during the current Point-to-Point season will, as far as possible, not be eliminated.

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