Enjoy top-class racing and festive family fun at the Christmas Meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse

With two days of exhilarating winter racing and plenty of festive family fun, get the whole gang together for The Christmas Meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse this December 2024.

By Kaleigh Pritchard  |  Published
Festive family fun comes to Cheltenham Racecourse this December with The Christmas Meeting 2024.

Providing two thrilling days of winter racing action to help kick off the festive celebrations, The Christmas Meeting comes to Cheltenham Racecourse on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 December 2024. 

Showcasing top-class jump racing with one of the most significant hurdle races of the entire season, there are seven races each day with highlights including the Unibet Middle Distance Veterans Handicap Steeple Chase on Friday and The December Gold Cup on Saturday. 

There's lots of festive family fun to enjoy, too, with Saturday's Christmas Extravaganza featuring the chance to write Santa a letter and give it to him in his magical grotto, and even enjoy a Christmas pony ride!

See how good you've really been this year, too, with the help of the Elves and the Goodometer — they'll be hanging out in The Plaza on both Friday and Saturday to add names to the naughty and nice lists.

The Got2Sing choir is also in attendance singing Christmas carols to entertain racegoers throughout the weekend, as well as the Hornbrokers brass trio jazzing up proceedings around the Plaza christmas tree, and Richard James returns to Quevega's to ring in the merriment with an afternoon of Christmas classics.

Plus, there's 17 pop-up shops setting up in the shopping village to browse for those last-minute Christmas gifts!

Tickets to The Christmas Meeting are available at thejockeyclub.co.uk/cheltenham/events-tickets/the-christmas-meeting, with prices ranging from £10.80 per person for the Best Mate Enclosure to £25.64 for the Club/Tatts Enclosure — for access to Santa's Grotto.

Under-18s go free and groups can save on tickets with a ten per cent discount for groups of six people.

Event

The Christmas Meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse 2024

Dates

Friday 13 to Saturday 14 December 2024

Times

The first races start at 12.05pm each day, with the last races kicking off at 3.35pm

Admission

Tickets cost from £10.80 per person when attending in a group of six and under-18s go free with a paying adult ticket

Telephone

(0344) 579 3019

In partnership with Cheltenham Racecourse  |  thejockeyclub.co.uk/cheltenham

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