Cheltenham Festival 2025 antepost odds, best bets and tips
Cheltenham Festival 2025 is already on some punters' betslips as the odds for the big Championship races are available.
The prices will vary across the year but if you can find an antepost winner this early on ahead of the 2025 renewal, you'll certainly be on for a big return.
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- Jasmin De Vaux - 6/1
- Romeo Coolio - 12/1
- Jalon D'Oudairies - 14/1
- Jeroboam Machin - 16/1
- Salvator Mundi - 16/1
- William Munny - 16/1
- A Dream To Share - 25/1
- Port Joulain - 25/1
- Constitution Hill - 2/1
- Lossiemouth - 7/2
- State Man - 4/1
- Ballyburn - 9/1
- Slade Steel - 25/1
- Mystical Power - 25/1
- Ballyburn - 4/1
- Sir Gino - 8/1
- Slade Steel - 10/1
- Majborough - 10/1
- Firefox - 14/1
- Mystical Power - 14/1
- Impaire Et Passe - 16/1
- Lossiemouth - 2/1
- Jade De Grugy - 6/1
- Brighterdaysahead - 10/1
- Dysart Enos - 16/1
- El Fabiolo - 5/2
- Gaelic Warrior - 4/1
- Energumene - 7/1
- Jonbon - 10/1
- Marine Nationale - 14/1
- Galopin Des Champs - 9/4
- Fact To File - 4/1
- Il Est Fancais - 10/1
- Grey Dawning - 10/1
- Corbetts Cross - 20/1
- Fastorslow - 20/1
- Champion Hurdle: Constitution Hill 2/1
- Arkle Chase: Sir Gino 8/1 each-way
- Mares' Hurdle: Lossiemouth 2/1
- Cheltenham Gold Cup: Galopin Des Champs 9/4
Antepost betting is risky of course and the 2024 Cheltenham Festival was a great example of that with this super star being withdrawn from contention just a week before the Champion Hurdle.
That being said, 2/1 is a massive price for Constitution Hill as many punters won't be willing to risk it antepost for the Nicky Henderson-trained 2023 winner.
The only thing is, if he runs, he wins by a mile - always.
So it's not a concern of whether he wins it's only a cause for concern if he goes for the Champion Hurdle again next year, with the only thing standing in his way is some form of injury or health issue.
For 2/1, that's a great price for small stakes a year on and you can get similar prices for horses that aren't going to be 1/6 on the day if they do get there.
The Arkle is a great race for novice chasers who are by and large two mile horses.
It is somewhat rare to see horses go from the Triumph Hurdle onto the Arkle, even though it is for Novice chasers, however he has always looked the part for Henderson.
He remains unbeaten over hurdles and was set to be an odds-on shot for the Triumph Hurdle, which was won by Majborough.
But just like Constitution Hill the poor performance outbreak at the Seven Barrows yard was enough to pull him out of contention with the trainer seeing a plethora of horses pull up both at the festival and the lead up to it.
Now if he won that race, there'd be no question he'd be a shorter price and it says a lot that he's still shorter than the winner who's 10/1.
Ballyburn is the 4/1 favourite, though at 2m he's sure to stay clear of this race and perhaps, if he does go chasing head for a race like the Turners Novices' Chase over 2m4f, the same as the Gallaghers Novices' Hurdle distance, which he won comfortably.
But that is another part of antepost betting - figuring out where a horse can, could or should go. And even then, sometimes the trainer has other ideas.
Lossiemouth was one of the few best bets of the festival for 2024 to win the Mares' Hurdle.
It was always hinted at that she could go for a Champion Hurdle stint, but there's so much quality in her ability over the Mares' Hurdle it would be odd not to go and win it.
For 2025, there also might be a few new contenders.
In the shape of the new mares on the block who features in the Mares' Novices' Hurdle in March.
Jade De Grugy, Brighterdaysahead and Dysart Enos are the only others in the odds so far, and if by some miracle it stays close to that level, Lossiemouth should have this race in the bag.
There's plenty of time and development to come though, but neither the first two horses were close to winning the Novices' Hurdle this year.
Meanwhile, there's still question marks on how good Dysart Enos is after she had to miss that Cheltenham Festival race, which was won by Golden Ace.
Galopin Des Champs has now won back-to-back Gold Cups securing the feature race of the festival once again under the top rider Paul Townend for trainer of the week Willie Mullins.
The horse beat Gerri Colombe by over three lengths and still looked to have plenty of energy left over the finish line too, just like he did the previous year ahead of Bravemansgame.
Like most years there will be new challengers arising as the year progresses.
Already Fact To File, who looked like a future Gold Cup winner when he crossed the line first in the Brown Advisory Chase, is a close contender in the odds.
He's suited to the distance as he confirmed in March and has gone on a bit of an unbeaten run.
The proof of his ability will have to be confirmed in late 2024 though and all racing fans will hope to see some kind of tussle between Galopin Des Champs and Fact To File well before the 2025 festival.
Galopin Des Champs will only be nine-years-old going for his third Gold Cup though, so 9/4 on this consistent winner is also hard to pass up at this stage.
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All odds correct at time of writing
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