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With the new National Hunt season now in full swing, the 2012 Cheltenham Festival is becoming the centre of attention for racing fans across the country. The bookmakers are already offering antepost markets for many of the feature races at the 2012 meeting. The odds reflect the chances of the current champions regaining their crowns and the winners of the Novice races from 2011 stepping up to take on their older counterparts with the Festival running between 13th-16th March. All eyes are on Long Run once again this season as he bids for a second straight Gold Cup after his great win last season at the Festival. Big Bucks is going for fourth successive win in the World Hurdle while Hurricane Fly will be back to defend the Champion Hurdle he won last season. It will also be interesting to follow the fortunes of the likes of Zarkandar who looked a real star when winning the Triumph Hurdle at last season's Festival and he could go down the Champion Hurdle route this campaign.
The final meeting before the Festival at Prestbury Park is the exciting Cheltenham Trials Day on Saturday and it should give punters plenty of big race clues. It gives trainers one last chance to run their horses at Cheltenham before the Festival and it is shaping up to be a top quality day of racing. The Argento Chase acts as a good Gold Cup Trial while we are expecting to see the great Big Bucks take his chance in the Cleeve Hurdle.
The Cheltenham Festival Race Cards are an essential part of the week for punters and they race cards will be available for each race throughout the Festival. They are fully comprehensive including the form for each runner as well as they very latest betting price. The Race Cards prove to be essential reading for punters before having a bet on the race with all the details of the connections for each horse also on offer with those all important jockey bookings also within easy reach on the Cheltenham race cards. The Cheltenham Festival Form for 2012 will of course be running right the way through the season when the National Hunt campaign begins again in the Autumn, and punters will be able to follow their selections right the way through the winter.
We will once again have the insights of Tom Lee Of Channel 4 and RTE who shall be putting up his Cheltenham Festival Tips in the lead up to festival as well as during the week itself. All the 27 races along with form, results and free bets from the online bookmakers will once again be a major feature of our Cheltenham betting previews. So far Tom has been having a great festival with three winners on day 2 to help punters, he correctly selected First Lieutenant in the Neptune, Carlito Brigante in the Coral Cup and Champion Chase winner Sizing Europe while Tom was also correct with Albertas Run in the Ryanair Chase on Day 3.
2011 saw a new race at the Cheltenham Festival to bring the total to 27 and we expect that to be the same again in 2012. The newest race at the Cheltenham Festival is the Jewson novices Chase which is run over 2m 5f and was won Noble Prince at the Festival. It falls in between the 2m Arkle Chase and the 3m RSA Chase and should now become a fixture on the schedule and one of the more important Cheltenham Festival Races. The 2012 schedule will follow a similar one to that of 2011 with the Champion Hurdle the feature on day 1, the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Day 2, the Ladbrokes World Hurdle on Day 3 and of course the feature Cheltenham Gold Cup taking its place on the final day of the Festival.
The initial list of entries for the RSA Chase at Cheltenham have been released and all are eyes are on hot favourite Grands Crus. The grey horse trained by David Pipe has proven to be the best novice chaser so far this season and will start a warm order if he takes his chance at Cheltenham. Su... [more]
The entries for the 2012 Arkle Novice Chase at the Cheltenham Festival have been announced and there is a top class list of 27 at this early stage. All of the well backed horses in the ante post betting are included with Sprinter Sacre, Peddlers Cross and Al Ferof the stand out names. Sprinter... [more]
This weekend sees the final meeting of the season at Cheltenham before the Festival and as Trials Day it is also one of the most important weekends of the year. It gives trainers one last chance to run their Festival hopefuls at Prestbury Park before the big meeting in March. The Argento Chase... [more]
The initial list of entries for the Ladbrokes World Hurdle have been released and there is no surprise to see the great Big Bucks heading the 37. The Paul Nicholls horse has won the stayers hurdle for the last three years and will go into the 2012 race as the hot favourite for a fourth consecu... [more]
The initial list of entries for the 2012 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham have been made and as expected they are headed by 2011 winner, Hurricane Fly. The Willie Mullins horse is the stand out name on a top class list of 27 names despite the fact we are yet to see him have a run this season. Hur... [more]
Following on from last year, we are delighted to announce that we are featuring horse racing tips from Channel Four Racing presenter, Tom Lee.
Tom appears on Channel 4's Morning Line & covers live Racing in the afternoon as well fronting RTE's Racing coverage in Ireland, his Cheltenham Festival Tips and previews of each day's Racing will be available during the Festival and supported with opinions and views from our Racing writers.
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We now have the latest bookmakers betting odds for the main Cheltenham Festival Races.
These odds are updated regularily to ensure that you in touch with all the market moves in the build up to the festival.
The four days of the Cheltenham Festival play host to a number of high quality races:
