Cheltenham Festival

Cheltenham Festival – Day 1 – Champion Day

Cheltenham Festival – Day 2 – Ladies Day

Cheltenham Festival Betting Odds

Antepost – All Races

Races – Day 1

Supreme Novices Hurdle
Arkle Challenge Trophy
Festival Handicap Chase
Champion Hurdle
Cross Country Handicap Chase
David Nicholson Mares Hurdle
Centenary Novice Chase

Races – Day 2

National Hunt Steeple Chase
Neptune Investment Hurdle
RSA Chase
Queen Mother Champion Chase
Coral Cup
Fred Winter Handicap Hurdle
Champion Bumper

Races – Day 3

Jewson Novices Chase
Pertemps Final Handicap Hurdle
Ryanair Chase
Ladbrokes World Hurdle
Byrne Group Plate
Kim Muir Challenge Cup

Races – Day 4

JCB Triumph Hurdle
County Handicap Hurdle
Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Foxhunter Steeple Chase
Conditional Jockeys Hurdle
Grand Annual Chase

The Cheltenham Festival is one of the most prestigious meetings in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, and has race prize money second only to the Grand National. It is an event where many of the best British and Irish trained horses race against each other, the extent of which is relatively rare during the rest of the season.

The festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The meeting usually coincides with Saint Patrick’s Day, and is popular with Irish visitors.

Large amounts of money are bet during festival week, with hundreds of millions of pounds being gambled over the four days. Cheltenham is often noted for its atmosphere, most notably the “Cheltenham roar”, which refers to the enormous amount of noise that the crowd generates as the starter raises the tape for the first race of the festival.