
The Ryanair is run over 2 miles 5 furlongs and is for five year olds and above. The Ryanair is meant for horses that find 3 miles just beyond their stamina capabilities and just below Cheltenham Gold Cup standard.
The 2008 Ryanair winner Our Vic highlighted both these points as he looked as if he would be a Gold Cup horse in his younger days but it became clear that he fell in a hole beyond the two and a half mile distance and he just never managed to reach the very top of the game. His finest moments came in last years Ryanair and followed it up with a victory over Kauto Star at Aintree.
The Ryanair is generally a very interesting betting market at the festival with a number of very good chasers going to post and you can get this latest odds on this site
Check Out The Latest Ryanair Chase Odds
You can check out the form of the leading contenders as we build up to the Ryanair feature at the Festival come March. There will be horses dropping down from 3 miles to take their chance over the shorter distance and likewise horses stepping up from 2 miles and that is what makes this race so appealing
We will be looking at all the angles to arrive at a Ryanair Chase tip come the third day of the 2009 Cheltenham Festival. We know that Paul Nicholls with all the chasing talent will have a couple of possible entries and maybe they might feature in our tipping section.
The Ryanair results since they took over sponsorship of the race in 2005
2008 Our Vic 10 D E Pipe 4/1
2007 Taranis 6 P F Nicholls 9/2
2006 Fondmort 10 N Henderson 100/30JF
2005 Thisthatandtother 9 P F Nicholls 9/2
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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.

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