The Cheltenham Festival is quite simply the highlight of the National Hunt season in the UK and Ireland, it is what everyone works towards during the winter with the Cheltenham Festival affectively holding the Championship races every March. The Festival itself is held over four days and continues to expand with every passing season, each of the four days has a feature race with the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Day Four the feature race of the meeting.
It is a huge week for the whole racing industry with punters at the centre of the attention, the latest odds from Betfair for each race often rights right through the season and up until seconds before the off. The bookmaker had a great week at Cheltenham in 2010 with many of the favourites upset during the four days, the punters though will be out for revenge as always with 27 races on offer. The Festival covers races for every tpe of horse whether it be for the Juveniles in the Champion Bumper or the Mares in the David Nicholson Hurdle there really is something for everyone at the Festival.
The biggest betting of the week of course surrounds the Gold Cup Odds, with the top three mile chasers around clashing for the big prize of the year. The Champion Hurdle is the key race on Day 1 with the very best two mile hurdles clashing, while the big race on day 2 is the Queen Champion Chase over the bigger obstacles. The Champion Chase will be hugely competitive in 2015 with the likes of Sprinter Sacree and Sire De Grugy set to lock horns, the betting is looking tight here so their early season form will be crucial.
Day 3 sees the staying hurdlers take centre stage with the Ladbrokes World Hurdle the feature race of the day, Big Buck's will be back in 2014 and likely to be the hot favourite for a fifth win in the race for the Paul Nicholls yard.
Cheltenham Festival Races/Schedule 2015
Cheltenham Festival Day 1
Supreme Novices Hurdle
Arkle Challenge Trophy
Festival Handicap Chase
Champion Hurdle
David Nicholson Mares Hurdle
National Hunt Chase
Centenary Novices Chase
Cheltenham Festival Day 2
Neptune Investment Novices Hurdle
RSA Chase
Coral Cup
Queen Mother Champion Chase
Cross Country Chase
Fred Winter Handicap Hurdle
Champion Bumper
Cheltenham Festival Day 3
JLT Novices Chase
Pertemps Final Handicap
Ryanair Chase
Ladbrokes World Hurdle
Byrne Group Plate
Kim Muir Challenge Cup
Cheltenham Festival Day 4
JCB Triumph Hurdle
County Handicap Hurdle
Albert Bartlett Novices Hurdle
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Foxhunter Chase
Conditional Jockeys Hurdle
Grand Annual Chase
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