Rich Ricci is one of the most popular owners in horse racing and he has a few strong contenders at Cheltenham this year – but how many winners at the festival has he owned in total?
Rich Ricci Has Owned 20 Cheltenham Festival Winners
Rich Ricci is one of the most successful owners in the history of the Cheltenham Festival, owning the winner of 20 races dating back to March 2009.
There is only one owner who has tallied more Cheltenham winners than Ricci – Irish businessman and former stakeholder of Manchester United, JP McManus.
Ricci, a former investment banker from the United States who has a great relationship with leading trainer Willie Mullins, has a net worth of over £100 million.
Rich Ricci’s First Cheltenham Festival Winner Was Mikael D’Haguenet In 2009
The Rich Ricci Cheltenham Festival story started back in March 2009, when his Mikael D’Haguenet won the Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle – a race he’s now won twice in total.
Champagne Fever gave Ricci his second Cheltenham Festival winner in 2012 with triumph in the Champion Bumper before going on to win the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in 2013.
Since then, Ricci has enjoyed plenty of big race success at the Festival including two Champion Hurdles with Faugheen (2015) and Annie Power (2016).
One of his most adored horses, Vautour, won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in 2014, the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase in 2015 and the Ryanair Chase in 2016.
Rich Ricci Owned One Cheltenham Festival Winner In 2023
The Willie Mullins-trained Lossiemouth gave Ricci his sole winner at the Festival in the Triumph Hurdle to begin proceedings on the final day of action.
She is back in action on day one this year, currently the 4/6 odds-on favourite to land the Mares’ Hurdle – which would mark Ricci’s third success in the race.
Rich Ricci 2023 Cheltenham Festival winners
- Lossiemouth – Triumph Hurdle
Rich Ricci Main Runners At The 2024 Cheltenham Festival
Rich Ricci has 20 Cheltenham Festival winners to his name and we can expect this number to increase in 2024 – but what are his best chances?
- Gaelic Warrior – Arkle Novices’ Chase / Turners Novices’ Chase
- Sharjah – TrustATrader Plate
- Lossiemouth – Mares’ Hurdle
- Mercurey – Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle / Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
- Joystick – Champion Bumper
- Monkfish – Stayers’ Hurdle / Gold Cup
- Bialystok – County Hurdle
- Chapeau Du Soleil – Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
- Allegorie De Vassy – Mares’ Chase
Every Rich Ricci Cheltenham Festival Winner
- Lossiemouth – Triumph Hurdle (2023)
- Vauban – Triumph Hurdle (2023)
- Monkfish – Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (2021)
- Monkfish – Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (2020)
- Min – Ryanair Chase (2020)
- Benie Des Dieux – Mares’ Hurdle (2018)
- Let’s Dance – Mares’ Novices” Hurdle (2017)
- Douvan – Arkle Novices’ Chase (2016)
- Annie Power – Champion Hurdle (2016)
- Vroum Vroum Mag – Mares’ Hurdle (2016)
- Vautour – Ryanair Chase (2016)
- Limini – Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (2016)
- Douvan – Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (2015)
- Faugheen – Champion Hurdle (2015)
- Vautour – Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (2015)
- Vautour – Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (2014)
- Faugheen – Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle (2014)
- Champagne Fever – Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (2013)
- Champagne Fever – Champion Bumper (2013)
- Mikael D’Haguenet – Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle (2009)
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