Bookies outline worst Cheltenham Festival results for them

The spud race is the last of the top-level novice contests at the Cheltenham Festival. Despite being one of the newer events on the schedule after its introduction in 2005, the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle has thrown up a whole host of future staying stars including subsequent Gold Cup winners Bobs Worth in 2011 and Minella Indo in…

Festival Trials Day was the last race meeting at Cheltenham before March's four-day event. Willie Mullins' runners did not disappoint and Sir Gino's impressive win made him the new Triumph Hurdle favourite Elixir De Nutz ridden by jockey Freddie Gingell (right) race alongside Jonbon and James Bowen in the My Pension Expert Clarence House…

Rachael Blackmore steered Honeysuckle to an emotional farewell victory on Day 1 of Cheltenham Festival. As well as the Gold Cup, punters will be excited to take on plenty of Grade 1 races this week. In what could be a wet second day of the festival, British trainers hope to hit back after taking a heavy beating to their Irish counterparts last…

The Weatherbys Champion Bumper is the final race on Day 2 of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The John Kiely-trained A Dream To Share is the betting favourite to win the final race on Day 2 of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The seventh and final race on Day 2 of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival gets underway with the Champion Bumper at 5.30pm. One of the…

Rachael Blackmore returns to Cheltenham Festival this week looking to create more history after an astounding win in the Gold Cup in 2022. As well as the Gold Cup, punters will be excited to take in the Champion Hurdle and plenty more Grade 1 races. And British trainers will be out for revenge after taking a heavy beating to their Irish…

Could the Jamie Codd Cheltenham Festival tip be his ride in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper? The 10-time Festival winning jockey has already picked which Gordon Elliott runner he'll ride - see which horse below. Trainer Gordon Elliott is expected to have a strong hand in the Cheltenham Festival Weatherbys Champion Bumper. The County Meath handler is…

One of the main Nick Luck Cheltenham Festival tips will come in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. The RacingTV anchor man reveals his BEST BET of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival below. A Dream To Share went into many a notebook - including Nick Luck's - after bolting up at the Dublin Racing Festival last month. The John E Kiely-trained 5 year-old showed…

It is the calm before the storm for bookmakers as the national hunt scene readies for the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. The four days are busiest of the year for bookies as hundreds of millions will change hands over events at Prestbury Park. But many keen racing fans have been studying the form for Cheltenham since the end of last year's meeting in…

It usually provides major clues for betting at Cheltenham, but this year's Dublin Racing Festival (DRF) left punters with as many questions as answers. Perhaps the biggest shock of Leopardstown's two-day meeting saw the previously-unbeaten Facile Vega suffer defeat by 20 lengths in the Grade One Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle. Sent off at a…

WILLIE MULLINS looks poised to shatter his own Cheltenham Festival record - thanks to his ridiculously strong squad of runners. The Closutton supremo won a record-breaking ten races at last year's Festival. Yet at the time of writing, Mullins has the ante-post favourite in 12 races for next month's meeting. And he also has the second-favourite in a…

Trials day threw a few spanners in the works, and we have the Dublin Racing Festival to try and gain a clearer picture this coming weekend. Of the performances that I'll be taking forward to next month, I was impressed with Edwardstone's runner-up berth in the Clarence House Chase and will be keen to side with him in the Champion Chase, for which…

Cheltenham Trials Day produced some fantastic finishes and enthralling action, of that nobody can deny. The famous Cotswolds course hosted a mammoth nine-race card last Saturday after the postponement of the previous weekend's Ascot meeting moved the Clarence House Chase to Prestbury Park, while the Cross Country Chase, which fell to ground…

Hold onto your hats horse racing fans as it's the Dublin Racing Festival 2023 this weekend with two days of high-quality National Hunt action. So, let's look at the Dublin Racing Festival race times and full Leopardstown running order, so you know what races to have on your radar. You can also see the best 2023 Dublin Racing Festival betting…

The Dublin Racing Festival 2023 will be grabbing all the horse racing headlines this weekend as a star-studded cast head to Leopardstown for two days of high class jumping. We'll also see plenty more 2023 Cheltenham Festival clues as a result, so let's take a look at the big names that will be on show. You can also see the best 2023 Dublin Racing…

THE self-proclaimed'maddest f***er on the planet' looks to be working his magic again just in time for the Cheltenham Festival. Rich Ricci is a well-known name to ardent racing fans. But anytime he appears on ITV Racing, a whole new audience are exposed to the £100million banker with the mullet and snazzy suits. Put simply, as good as Ricci is in…

On January 1st, William Hill became the first bookmaker to offer Non Runner Money Back on all 28 Cheltenham Festival races. With the concession now in place for a couple of weeks, we spoke to Jamie McBride, one of the horse racing traders, to get a view on how it has changed the markets. Which horses have been particularly popular since the NRMB…

A Willie Mullins-trained horse is attracting Cheltenham Festival support ahead of his second run over hurdles at Punchestown this weekend. Impaire Et Passe bolted up by 18 lengths when winning at Naas on his debut for the Mullins team last month and runs in the Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle on Sunday, a race the Carlow trainer has previously won with…

Honeysuckle and Rachael Blackmore will aim to bounce back from her first defeat at Fairyhouse to win a fourth consecutive Irish Champion Hurdle This year's Dublin Racing Festival looks set to play host to a star-studded line-up after early entries for the two-day Irish calendar highlight at Leopardstown were revealed on Thursday. Eight Grade 1s…

The amazing Honeysuckle should extend her unbeaten record and become the first four-time winner of Grade 1 Bar One Racing Hatton's Grace Hurdle in Fairyhouse on Sunday. The eight-year-old mare boasts hugely impressive stats - she's unbeaten in sixteen racecourse starts (plus her only point-to-point), twelve of them at Grade 1 level and seven around…

Zarak The Brave: hoping to build on his maiden win in a Grade 3 at Fairyhouse on Sunday While all eyes will be on the three Grade 1s on the card, there is plenty of quality scattered throughout the other five races at Fairyhouse. The best of the rest is the Grade 3 Bar One Racing Price Boost Juvenile Hurdle (12.25) which pits two of Willie Mullins'…

Bravemansgame and Hitman dominate the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase betting for Paul Nicholls after the well-supported Galopin Des Champs was taken out of the race at the latest acceptance stage. The Willie Mullins-trained Galopin Des Champs, an unlucky last-fence faller at the Cheltenham Festival back in March, had been the subject of support…

A mixed weekend, to put it lightly, saw what should have been one of the best cards of the jumps season at Ascot descend into farce, while Protektorat put in one of the performances of the season to win the Betfair Chase as A Plus Tard was pulled up. Here are three things we learned from the week's racing. . . Harry Skelton's celebration as he…

Jonbon is attracting support from ante-post punters ahead of his eagerly anticipated chasing debut at Warwick on Wednesday. The JP McManus-owned six-year-old finished second behind stablemate Constitution Hill in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival back in March before landing the Top Novices' Hurdle at Aintree a few weeks…

No trainer has saddled more Cheltenham Festival winners than Willie Mullins and the super-power of the training ranks looks set to make hay once again in 2023. Mullins has a huge squad of more than 60 horses to go to war with this time around and he's responsible for no less than ELEVEN ante-post favourites over the four days, including Galopin Des…