How rags-to-riches Cheltenham Festival winners are becoming harder to find

How much for a Cheltenham Festival winner? Detailed analysis of public auction records reveals that those who have struck on jump racing's biggest stage over the last ten years were sourced for as little as €3,000 and up to as much as £450,000 - and just about every price point in between.

The most expensive Cheltenham winner of the last ten years is the David Pipe-trained Un Temps Pour Tout, who carries the colours of Professor Caroline Tisdall and Bryan Drew. The £450,000 acquisition was bought from the 2013 DBS (now Goffs UK) Hennessy Sale having finished third behind Ptit Zig in the Grade 1 Prix Renaud du Vivier for Francois Nicolle.

Although no festival winner in the last ten years has cost more at public auction, connections are entitled to feel that Un Temps Pour Tout represents money well spent as the son of Robin Des Champs won back-to-back runnings of the Ultima Handicap Chase in 2016 and 2017. Those two victories contributed to career prize-money earnings of close to £500,000.