
Our main site sponsor Paddy Power are again offering a superb prize of a pair of Tickets to the 2009 Cheltenham Festival. Simply enter your details on the form provided below and we will draw a winner at random approximately one week before the festival starts. The lucky winner will then get two free tickets to witness the Cheltenham Gold cup live!
In addition to the free Cheltenham tickets being offered, Paddy Power are also providing a special Cheltenham Gold Cup free bet of £200 for one lucky visitor. Entrants to this tickets competition are automatically entered for both.
In order to claim the free tickets you need to have opened an account and placed an initial bet with Paddy Power online.
Open an account with Paddy Power to enter the competition
Once we drawn the winner, Paddy Power will confirm if the prize winner has an account. If the confirmation is succesful the tickets will be sent out immediately. If the confirmation is negative another winner will be drawn.
The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is offering a great free bet for new users on their site. Open an account and place an initial bet of upto £30 and they will match this with a free bet to the same value. Quite simply its a risk free betting offer of £30 from one of our favourite online bookmakers.
Open an account with Paddy Power for their £30 Free Bet
Open an account with Paddy Power for their £30 Free Bet
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| Paddy Power | Paddy Power £30 Free Bet |
|---|---|
| Ladbrokes | Ladbrokes £25 Free Bet |
| Stan James | Stan James £25 Free Bet |
| Boylesports | Boylesports £20 Free Bet |
| Bet365 | Bet365 £100 Free Bet |
| Totesport | Totesport £25 Free Bet |
| VCBet | VCBet £50 Free Bet |
Ladbrokes are our firm number one choice for your Cheltenham Festival bets. When you open an account with Ladbrokes you can claim a free bet of upto £25.
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.
So concludes another Cheltenham Festival.
2009 Cheltenham Festival Podcast -
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Listen to Tom's previews and tips ahead of this year's Festival.
We are delighted to announce this year we are featuring horse racing betting tips from the Channel Four presenter Tom Lee. Our resident racing tipster appears on Channel 4 and RTE in Ireland. Tom Lee Cheltenham Festival Tips will be supported with opinions and views from our editorial team.
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.
Old Course (used on Tuesday & Wednesday) - Good to Soft
New Course (used on Thursday & Friday) - Good to Soft, Soft in places

We now have the latest antepost betting odds for the main Cheltenham Festival 2009 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.