
The National Hunt season has a massive following amongst horse racing fans and horse racing punters and isnt restricted to only Cheltenham Festival Betting. One of the main reasons for this is that these brave equine stars are followed year on year and they build up a following from the racing public with horses like Red Rum, Desert Orchid and Best Mate just a mention a few of those in recent years who have captured the publics imagination.
The National Hunt horse racing calendar runs for most of the year but the season really gets going when the flat season ends in September and goes onto the middle of April after the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree Grand National and officially ends on Betfred Gold Cup day at Sandown.
There are many great horse racing spectacles during the National Hunt season with the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Aintree Grand National, the King George VI chase and the Hennessy Gold Cup and the Cheltenham Festival Champion Hurdle amongst the very best of the action. We have put together an overview of the main races throughout the season for your information and the courses that they are run on.
Each of these big race days are covered very well by al the leading online bookmakers listed on this site and all feature all the National Hunt ante post betting markets and National Hunt free bets for new customers using their online sites.
| Paddy Power Gold Cup Betting | October |
| King George VI Chase Betting | December |
| Hennessy Gold Cup Betting | November |
| Welsh Grand National Betting | December |
| Tingle Creek Betting | December |
| Victor Chandler Chase Betting | February |
| Charlie Hall Chase Betting | October |
| Grand National Betting | April |
| Boylesports International Betting | December |
| Victor Chandler Chase Betting | January |
| Pierse Hurdle Betting | January |
| Irish Champion Hurdle Betting | January |
| Irish Hennessy Gold Cup Betting | February |
| 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.