Jodami Cup, beating the Irish seven-year-old Merry Gale by three lengths. In this race he rallied on the flat to overtake the younger horse after looking beaten at the last fence. Dwyer received a seven-day ban for excessive use of the whip in the closing stages. At Cheltenham, Jodami looked impressive before the race but failed to cope with the exceptionally heavy ground and finished eighth behind Master Oats in the Gold Cup. Jodami won one race (at Kelso) from five starts in his 1995/1996 campaign. At the end of the season he ran two notable races in defeat in two
Ruby Walsh with the most wins in the history of the Cheltenham festival. In March 2011, Walsh rode Hurricane Fly to victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, finishing ahead of Peddlers Cross and Oscar Whisky. It was Walsh's first victory in the feature race of the opening day at the Cheltenham Festival. He won his 2,500 race on Au Quart De Tour at Gowran park on 20 January 2016. As of 2018, Walsh is the Festival's most successful rider with 58 wins and has won the leading rider's award eleven times within the last fourteen years. In August 2015 Walsh won