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Bookmakers still fight hard for your custom at Cheltenham and one of the best incentives for a wager is enhanced each-way betting, which will be a feature throughout the four days. You will be able to avail of seven places in some races and each-way bettors through the years are aware of one basic truth: your horse is far more likely to place than win.

Patrick Mullins can bag an opening afternoon Cheltenham Festival success on Tuesday - but from an unlikely source. All nine of Mullins’ Festival winners have come for his all-conquering dad Willie but on the opening day he teams up with the British-based Neil Mulholland in the closing National Hunt Chase with TRANSMISSION (5.20).

The first day of the Cheltenham Festival is very nearly upon us, drawing back the curtain on four days of the very best jump racing has to offer.

Day 1 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival is almost here and the best betting sites are gearing themselves up for another busy week of racing. Will it be a bookmakers dream day or will the punters land a knockout blow to the layers with a fourfold accas that currently pays shades over 7/1?

The Irish winner’s count has gone from a handful to double figures with yards like Willie Mullins and Gordon Ellliott dominating.