On her first outing this season My Petra from the Nicky Henderson yard was switched back to hurdles and recorded a comfortable success in a Listed mares event at Wetherby on November 1. Three weeks later, My Petra recorded the biggest victory of her career to date in the Grade Two Amlin 1965 Chase at Ascot where she came home six lengths clear of Oceanos Des Obeaux. She looks likely to take her chance in the £150,000 Boylesports.com Gold Cup at Cheltenham, for which she is a 10/1 chance with the sponsors.
Nicky Henderson said in the week before the race: "I think we ought to run her in the Boylesports.com Gold Cup. She is a mare who seems to be improving. "I am not convinced about stamina but Mick (Fitzgerald) was never worried about it. She seemed to stay at Ascot."
My Petra was sold to her current connections during the summer of 2007, the five-year-old joined Nicky Henderson last season and was switched to fences. She showed a good level of form, winning at Hereford and running a fine race when second to Tiger Cry in the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase at The Festival.
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When the racing starts in March many of the listed bookmakers on our site provide special betting markets and cashback offers. As soon as these are revealed we will be adding them to our site to ensure you have all the latest Cheltenham offers at your disposal.

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 and 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.
On this section you can get an overview of the each of the races and official going for each day of the festival. In addition we have previewed each race with all the form, tips and odds to assist you in backing a Cheltenham Festival winner.

We now have the latest antepost betting odds for the main Cheltenham Festival 2010 races. These odds are updated regularily to ensure that you in touch with all the market moves in the build up to the festival.
All the bookmakers will be putting up Special Offers on top of their Cheltenham Festival free bets for the festival. Generally you can get extra value with various cashback offers should your horse finish second or if it falls which are just a couple of the different types of offers you will find on this site during the Cheltenham Festival Races.
For those of you who do not have accomodation or tickets for the 2009 Cheltenham Festival, we have some useful tips to assist you in having a great week at Prestbury Park. Wheter you are looking for Cheltenham Festival accomodation or Cheltenham Racecourse Directions we should be able to help.