
The Cheltenham Festival is highlight of the season for the hunter chase brigade. The major stables are usually represented and are fiercely contested between the Irish and UK based trainers. Usually the contest is won by an experienced horse over the age of 10. This contest is run over, three miles about two and a half furlongs and a premium is put on the jumping and this is why experience nearly always plays a factor. In 2003 a young pretender by the name of Kingscliff took on the establish hunters and came out well on top. Later it became clear that this young horse had potential to take on the grade 1 thoroughbreds.
We shall display the odds for this race once the runners are available and the bookmakers put up a betting market.
The trend for Hunter Chasers in the UK is for older National Hunt horses to have another opportunity to shine and the Hunter Chaser come out in January to try and qualify for the Cheltenham feature
Come the Festival we will endeavour to look into this race in more detail but we have a Hunter Chase tip that may well pay dividends in our Tips section.
The recent winners of the Hunter Chases at the Festival are:
2008 Amicelli 9 Mrs C A Coward 33/1
2007 Drombeag 9 Jonjo O'Neill 20/1
2006 Whyso Mayo 9 R Hurley 20/1
2005 Sleeping Night 9 P Nicholls 7/2F
2004 Earthmover 13 P Nicholls 14/1
2003 Kingscliff 6 Mrs S Alner 11/4F
2002 Last Option 10 R Tate 20/1
2000 Cavalero 11 H Manners 16/1
| Bet365 | Bet365 £100 Free Bet |
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| Boylesports | Boylesports £200 Free Bet |
| Ladbrokes | Ladbrokes £25 Free Bet |
| Paddy Power | Paddy Power £30 Free Bet |
| Stan James | Stan James £25 Free Bet |
| Totesport | Totesport £25 Free Bet |
| William Hill | William Hill £25 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 £30.
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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.

We are delighted to announce we will be 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 card 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 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 we have some useful tips to assist you in having a great week at Prestbury Park the home of National Hunt racing.

The Irish arrive in their thousands to participate in the biggest racing festival in the World. Each year the Irish enjoy having a punt and more than a few glasses of Guinness during festival week.