Today is Cheltenham Gold Cup day, the race that decides the champion chaser of the National Hunt season. It starts at 3.20pm and will attract not only the total attention of all at Prestbury Park but also several million racing enthusiasts at home.
The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a horse racing epic that has produced winners who have become household names. Arkle, Desert Orchid, Dawn Run, and Best Mate are just four of the many legendary names to have won and todays race has the potential to produce another.
Kauto Star is favourite and if he wins he will be the first horse ever to have regained the crown; he won in 2007. Denman who beat Kauto Star into second place last year could also earn legendary status should he retain the race, but after suffering from a dodgy heart beat at the end of last season it seems unlikely. They are both trained by Paul Nicholls.
Perhaps it will be a day for the romantics and the Queens horse, Barbers Shop. He has had a great sesson and has excellent claims to run a big race today, so too does Neptune Collonges, stablemate to both Kauto Star and Denman and who was third last year. Exotic Dancer too comes into the race in great form so does Madison De Berlais who was the first horse to defeat Denman over fences last month.
It promises to be a great race no matter what the outcome because the Cheltenham Gold Cup will confirm its place as one of the great sporting ocassions of the calendar year.
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| Ladbrokes | Ladbrokes £200 Free Bet |
| Boylesports | Boylesports £20 Free Bet |
| William Hill | William Hill £25 Free Bet |
| Sportingbet | Sportingbet £10 Free Bet |
| Bet365 | Bet365 £200 Free Bet |
| VCBet | VCBet £125 Free Bet |
Paddy Power are our firm number one choice for your Cheltenham Festival bets. When you open an account with Paddy Power you can claim a free bet of upto £250.
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 2011 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.