{"id":222611,"date":"2026-01-02T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:28:09","slug":"here-was-a-stunning-start-to-2026-and-cheltenhams-boss-is-now-very-confident-about-this-years-festival-attendances-racing-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222611\/","title":{"rendered":"Here was a stunning start to 2026 – and Cheltenham's boss is now 'very confident' about this year's festival attendances – Racing Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here was a stunning start to 2026 – and Cheltenham’s boss is now ‘very confident’ about this year’s festival attendances<\/a>  Racing PostRecord crowd for New Year’s Day Cheltenham meeting<\/a>  BBCHorse racing tips: Best value bets for Cheltenham and Windsor on New Year’s Day<\/a>  Sporting Life\u00a3660,000 festival favourite puts credentials on line and a Dan Skelton handicapper to watch – key quotes and horses to note at Cheltenham<\/a>  Racing PostBumper New Year\u2019s Day attendance at Cheltenham outstrips festival crowd<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here was a stunning start to 2026 – and Cheltenham’s boss is now ‘very confident’ about this year’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-222611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}