Golden Ace’s Cheltenham Return: Champion Hurdle Trainer Jeremy Scott

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Defending Champion Hurdle winning trainer Jeremy Scott joins Emmet Kennedy as the remarkable Golden Ace prepares to return to the Cheltenham Festival in a bid to defend her crown. Scott reflects on Golden Ace’s dramatic victory last year, charting the journey from a small Exmoor yard to the summit of National Hunt racing. He explains why he believes the mare arrives at Cheltenham in even better shape this time around and how her preparation has gone ahead of the Festival. The conversation also explores the key rivals in what promises to be a wide-open Champion Hurdle and what it would mean to join the elite group of horses who have managed to win the race more than once. Jeremy also shares two handicappers he believes are worth following at the Festival, offering valuable insight for punters searching for an edge during Cheltenham week. 🔵 Presented by 1xBet Ireland. More than 7,000 events per day, fast withdrawals & new customer specials 👉 ⁠https://cutt.ly/0r7bzDoH ⁠18+. T&Cs apply. Gamble responsibly. Your game. Your odds. Your 1xBet. 🔔 Subscribe on YouTube for weekly reviews, previews & Festival insight🎧 Follow on Spotify, Apple & Podbean for instant episode drops💬 Comment: Who is your horse to follow from the weekend?👍 Like & share to support the show and grow the community ⚡ Proven Form: Winners tipped recently at 20/1, 16/1, 14/1, 12/1, and 10/1.🎯 Smart betting meets sharp analysis — only on The Final Furlong Podcast. 1xBet social media pages: Х: https://x.com/1xbet_ireland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1xbet.ie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1xbet.ie LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1xbet-ireland/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@1xBet_Ireland Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.proformracing.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: radioemmet@gmail.com In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The final furlong podcast is presented by OneX Bet Island.
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0:14.0	18 plus only.
0:16.0	Please gamble responsibly.
0:17.0	Your game, your odds, your one X bet.
0:20.0	And now here's your host. Emmett Kennedy.
0:23.3	We are days away from the greatest show on turf, the Cheltenham Festival, which you can hear
0:27.4	live across the Talksport Network on Talksport and on Racing Live on Talksport 2.
0:32.3	The feature race on day one is the champion hurdle, which last year delivered one of the most
0:36.4	dramatic renewals in the race's history,
0:38.3	when 25 to one shot Golden Ace stormed up the hill to claim the crown.
0:42.3	Trained on X-More by Jeremy Scott, she provided one of the great festival stories, giving a relatively small West Country Yard, the biggest prize in hurdling.
0:50.3	Now the eight-year-old returns to Cheltenham, aiming to defend her title and to win at the festival for the third consecutive year and join a very exclusive group of forces to win the champion hurdle more than once. And her trainer, Jeremy Scott, joins us on the show now. You're very welcome to the program, Jeremy. Thank you very much. Now, good to speak to you. Quite a remarkable performance last year, which led Lizzie Kelly live on air to say, what just happened,
1:15.2	what just happened, 12 months on from that incredible afternoon. When you think back to it,
1:19.7	does it still feel a bit surreal? Yeah. I mean, I think we didn't go there thinking that,
1:26.7	or if we ever thought it, I just dismissed it as fantasy that we could ever win it. So that we were helped out by the unfortunate falls
1:32.4	of constitutional estate man. But yeah, that never figured in your head before the race.
1:39.2	So when it all happened, yeah, a little bit of a little bit of a days we were in.
1:44.0	You run a relatively small yard at Exmoor about 35 horses in a sport that is increasingly dominated
1:48.7	by huge operations. What does that victory mean for you and for your team?
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