The National Hunt Festival
The first day of the 1974 Festival, with slow-motion analysis and interviews with the leading trainers and jockeys.
2.30 Sun Alliance Novices Hurdle (2im)
3.5 The National Hunt Two-Mile Champion Chase
The most important two-mile Chase of the season.
3.40 Joe Coral Golden Hurdle Final (Handicap) (3m and a few yards)
4.15 The Sun Alliance Steeplechase (3m, 100yds)
The richest race of the day, with £7,500 added prize money, brings together the season's top-staying novice chasers. Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , CLIVE GRAHAM Reporter JULIAN WILSON
Outside broadcast presentation by BARRIE EDGAR and RICHARD TILLING Editor ALAN HART