Cheltenham Festival Guide
June 11, 2009
The Cheltenham Festival is the feature event of the UK and Ireland’s National Hunt Racing calendar. Amongst the fans of Racing and the media, the phrase ’all roads roads lead to Cheltenham’ is a common saying from the start of the National Hunt Season in late October through to the start of the Festival which take place during the month of March each year.
The Cheltenham Festival is like a World Cup of Jumps racing, attracting the best runners from the top stables in the UK and Ireland, where this form of Horse Racing is most popular to compete for the best prize money in the sport. The meeting runs for for days from Tuesday through to Friday and stages a total of 26 races ranging in various distances, from top class graded races races to Handicap races and run over both fences and hurdles.
The four feature races of the meeting are the Champion Hurlde, Queen Mother Champion Chase, World Hurdle and Cheltenham Gold Cup, with each race the feature of the four different days. However, the supporting races are all high quality and make up a fantasticracing spectacle.
The Cheltenham Festival is a hugely popular Racing event and every year, each of the four days sees over 60,000 people head to Cheltenham Racecourse to watch the action live and take in the Festival’s unique atmosphere. Many of those in attendance head over from Ireland and much of the merriment of fun at the Festival is attributed to the Irish contingent. Away from the course, millions more watch the meeting on the TV with Channel 4 in the UK and RTE in Ireland broadcasting the action. In turn, the bookmakers also benefit from the huge popularity of the Cheltenham Festival with the meeting the busiest four days period of the year for bookmakers and it is estimated to be worth over £500 million to the betting industry and growing on an annual basis. The quality and competitiveness of the Cheltenham Festival racing is such that Cheltenham Festivla Odds are often found to be in the punters favour and if you are lucky enough to find a few winners, the profits are likely to be very healthy! Betting Directory’s Cheltenham Festival Guide is recommended to anybody lookign to find more information on the Cheltenham Festival, including race previews, tips and the est odds on each race.
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