New horseracing docuseries Champions: Full Gallop - when to watch, TV details, where to stream and more

New jump racing docuseries Champions: Full Gallop follows the story of the 2023-24 jumps season and provides huge insight into the highs and lows of National Hunt racing. There will also be unmatched access to jockeys, trainers and some of the biggest equine stars in the sport.

The docuseries, which will be spread across six episodes on ITV1, the first three of which can be streamed on ITVX here, will feature the likes of Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls, while top jockeys such as Harry Cobden, Nico de Boinville, Bryony Frost and Sean Bowen are also involved.

The programme attempts to follow the success of other sports, with F1's Drive To Survive and football's All Or Nothing among those to have benefited from a similar series.

Champions: Full Gallop – episode recaps

• Episode one: 'I felt like I was taking off' - King George thrills and spills light up opening episode of Champions: Full Gallop 
• Episode two: 'It's like Pep Guardiola getting Erling Haaland back' - the inside story of the jockeys' title race in episode two of Champions: Full Gallop 
• Episode three: ‘It didn’t feel like a hug, it felt like I was getting strangled’ - Cheltenham Festival the focus in episode three of Champions: Full Gallop 

Where and when to watch Champions: Full Gallop

• Episode four of the docuseries will be broadcast on ITV1 at 9pm on Friday, August 9
• Now available to stream on ITVX: episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3

"We want people at home to be able to engage with racing and to see it in a different way, to get a glimpse behind the scenes and experience the grit and the glory"Credit: Alan Crowhurst (Getty Images)

'I hope everybody will love it'

Racecourse Media Group (RMG) chief executive Martin Stevenson described the launch of the new primetime jump racing docuseries as a "huge opportunity" for racing.

He said: "It's a huge opportunity for the sport and the question is how can we build on this. I hope everybody will love it and we can talk about the next series. The way these things work best is to build them over a number of series and to really draw people into the stories so it becomes one of the ways they enjoy the sport.

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"We want people at home to be able to engage with racing and to see it in a different way, to get a glimpse behind the scenes and experience the grit and the glory.

"We hope to ultimately widen the sport's fanbase. Racing is clearly facing some challenges, but it still has a huge audience and if we can get a decent fraction of the people who enjoy jump racing engaged then we've succeeded."

• Champions: Full Gallop was first shown on ITV1 on Friday, July 19 at 9pm and you can stream the first three episodes on ITVX now

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