Cheltenham Free Bets March 2023

The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle of the jump racing season in the UK. This is why bookmakers go all out to please new and existing customers with free bets and betting offers. New customer free bets are often enhanced as bookies look to acquire your business.

Each bookmaker will offer its own selection of Cheltenham free bets. While some may cover the entire Festival, others may be specific to a certain race or even the performance of a particular horse/jockey.

As well as new player free bets, horse racing acca free bets are commonly available in the lead-up to the Festival, giving acca bettors extra value when placing their Cheltenham Festival predictions.

Cheltenham New Customer Offers

If you are looking to place a prediction on the Cheltenham Festival this year then you may well be considering registering with a new bookie. This is because many of the best Cheltenham offers are Cheltenham sign up offers , meaning the punter must create a new account to claim the betting offer on the table. Whether you are claiming a betfred offer, Paddy Power, Bet365 offer or like the look of the Cheltenham offers on display, always read the terms and conditions.

Increased Odds

Bookmakers offer enhanced odds on many horses in many races. So, you may get up to 4 points with some bookies on featured selections. For example, a horse at 6/1 may be offered to you at 10/1. These offers often have maximum bet values, normally between £5-£20.

Best Odds Guaranteed (BOG)

The Best Odds Guaranteed offer has become extremely popular with many of the big bookmakers, including it on all their races. The offer ensures that you will get the best odds regardless of whether the odds you placed your bets on are less than the final starting price. For example, you bet on a horse at 6/1 however, by the time the race has started, the price has changed to 8/1. You will get the 8/1 ‘Starting Price’, ensuring you are getting the maximum betting return.

Beaten By a Head

This offer is known by various names, depending on which bookie you use. This offer provides you with your stake back up to a certain value if your horse is beaten by head on the finish line. All regular racing bettors would have felt the anguish of your horse losing by such a small margin. While this offer won’t win you your bet, it will return your bet stake back as a free bet.

Moneyback Faller

This offer gives you your money back as a free bet if your selection falls during the race. This offer is often utilised by bookmakers during featured race days and prominent races. It is available on all Cheltenham Festival races by several of the big bookmakers.

Fell At The Last

This offer is a watered-down version of ‘Moneyback Faller’. You can get money back if your selection falls in front of the last fence/hurdle in the selected race meetings.

2nd To The Outsider

There is no worse feeling than when your horse is beaten by an outsider. However, some bookies try and parry the blow by offering your bet stake back as a free bet. This is generally up to £100, which is considerably more than similar offers.

Acca Free Bets

Horse racing acca free bets are heavily in-demand in the run-up to the Cheltenham Festival. Acca bets are when you combine numerous selections into one bet, all of which have to be correct for the bet to win.

Acca free bets provide a comfort blanket for the more risk-averse acca racing bettor. Top bookies offering acca free bets for the Cheltenham festival include Ladbrokes, Coral and William Hill. Head over to the William Hill page to check out the current William Hill Cheltenham offer.

Non-runner Offers

For one reason or another, some horses scheduled to take part in Cheltenham Festival races end up being non-runners. This can be frustrating for a punter that has placed a bet on that horse. To soften the blow of this annoyance, some racing bookmakers will offer promotions to these bettors. This is commonly your stake back as a free bet This is thought of as one of the Cheltenham best bet offers of them all.

Cheltenham Cash Out Offers

Cash-out offers are Cheltenham festival offers that give players a price to ‘cash-out’ of a horse racing bet, either retaining some of their winnings or limiting their losses.Cash-out deals are great for punters that are eager to maintain control.

Cheltenham Offers 2023

There are plenty of Cheltenham betting offers and free bets available in March, with bookies eager to celebrate the Cheltenham Festival. Bookmakers provide betting offers to new and existing customers in the form of free bets. Betway's Countdown to Cheltenham is one of the best new player offers we have seen in the run-up to the 2023 festival!

Existing customers can also benefit from individual race offers such as increased odds, odds boosts, increased E/W places and more. Keep an eye on freebets.ltd.uk for Ante-post Cheltenham 2023 odds, hot Cheltenham offers and betting previews.

The highlight of the National Hunt season is almost upon us as we’re now less than a month away from the four-day Cheltenham Festival. Running from the 14th until the 17th of March, the Cheltenham Festival will see 28 races run over four days, including a mouth-watering total of 14 Grade One races. Whilst we still have a while to wait for official race declarations, the antepost markets have already attracted plenty of interest. Crucially, the Cheltenham Festival antepost markets now include a ‘no runner, no bet’ (NRNB) policy. That means if your selection opts to run in a different race or is pulled from the Festival altogether, your stake will be returned. In this section, we preview some of the week’s major races, including antepost odds from our betting partners at BoyleSports.

The final day of the Festival and we have three more Grade One wins to wrap up the week. The Gold Cup is the standout race of the week and second only to the Grand National in terms of betting revenue. But, before the Gold Cup gets underway we have Grade One action in the Triumph Hurdle and Albert Bartlett.

1:30

Lossiemouth has long been the favourite to land this year’s Triumph Hurdle but antepost backers may have been a little unsettled to see her turned over by stablemate, Gala Marceau at Leopardstown in February. Lossiemouth remains the market leader but has eased from 11/10 to 6/4 whilst Gala Marceau is still well-priced at 5/1.

Willie Mullins has the first three horses in the Triumph Hurdle market and Blood Destiny may well have the beating of both Lossiemouth and Gala Marceau. The four-year-old has had two runs since joining the Mullins yard and he was a comfortable winner on both runs. Blood Destiny made all to win by 18 lengths last time out at Fairyhouse in January and a few horses behind him that day have shown some real promise. Blood Destiny at 5/2 could prove to be a real gem on the final day of the Festival.

JCB Triumph Hurdle odds

• 6/4: Lossiemouth
• 5/2: Blood Destiny
• 5/1: Gala Marceau
• 10/1: Comfort Zone
• 14/1: Bo Zenith

2:50

As usual, the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle looks wide-open this year. Trainer, Willie Mullins won a record-breaking third Albert Bartlett renewal last year with The Nice Guy and his strongest prospect this year is Embassy Gardens. The seven-year-old has never run outside of Ireland but was a 35-length winner at Thurles last time out.

The current market leader is Corbetts Cross who has been backed in from 8/1 to 5/1 in the recent weeks. The six-year-old boasts figures of 12111 this season and landed a tough Grade Two race last time out. Justifiably the race favourite, Corbetts Cross could take some beating.

The big gamble in the race is Monty’s Star. Henry de Bromhead’s entry was 33/1 for this race just three weeks ago but an impressive display when edging out stablemate, Hiddenvalley Lake at Clonmel in mid-February has seen him slashed to 9/1.

Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle odds

• 5/1: Corbetts Cross
• 11/2: Embassy Gardens
• 6/1: Hermes Allen
• 8/1: Hiddenvalley Lake, Three Card Brag, Sandor Clegane
• 10/1: Favori De Champdou, Absolute Notions, Monty’s Star

3:30

The final Grade One race of the Cheltenham Festival is the week’s most high-profile and the race that will command the highest number of bets throughout the entire meeting. The Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most valuable non-handicap race on the UK’s National Hunt calendar and it’s roll of honour includes some of the biggest names in British horse race. Past winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup include Kauto Star, Arkle, Best Mate and Desert Orchid.

Galopin Des Champs is the current 7/4 market leader. That price is shorter than any Gold Cup entry since Bob’s Worth went off at 6/4 back in 2014. Galopin Des Champs is looking to put his 2022 Cheltenham Festival disappointment behind him having fallen at the last hurdle when leading the Turners Novices’ Chase. The Willie Mullins-trained seven-year-old does have a previous Festival win on his record after clinching the 2021 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle.

Galopin Des Champs’ fall at Cheltenham last year is a rare blemish on an excellent recent record. The Gold Cup favourite has won the other seven of his last eight races, stretching back to that 2021 Cheltenham Festival success. Six of those wins came in Grade One races, including the Irish Gold Cup last month.

It will take a brave man to oppose Galopin Des Champs in the Gold Cup so perhaps it’s quite apt that next in the betting is Bravemansgame. Trainer, Paul Nicholls is chasing a record-equaling fifth Gold Cup having won the race previously with See More Business (1999), Kauto Star (2007 & 2009) and Denman (2008). Bravemansgame missed last year’s Festival but has won two from two so far this season. Last run was his 14-length Boxing Day win in the King George VI Chase at Kempton.

Last year’s winner, A Plus Tard is also prominent in the betting but is a very risky selection. Now nine years old, A Plus Tard pulled up in the Betfair Chase last November; his only run since last year’s Gold Cup.

Noble Yeats is an interesting selection, the 2022 Grand National winner is aiming to become just the third horse after Golden Miller and L’Escargot to claim a Grand National / Gold Cup double. Incidentally, Noble Yeats is also the bookies’ favourite in next month’s Grand National.

Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup odds

• 7/4: Galopin Des Champs
• 7/1: Bravemansgame
• 8/1: Noble Yeats, A Plus Tard
• 9/1: Stattler
• 10/1: Shishkin
• 12/1: Conflated
• 14/1: Ahoy Senor, Protektorat

1:30

The Festival gets underway with a wide-open Grade One Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. Last year’s Champion Bumper winner, Facile Vega was odds-on to win this race having won each of his first six races. However, he has now drifted to 10/3 following a disappointing run in the Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle earlier this month. Il Etait Temps landed that Grade One over at Leopardstown and has since been cut from 33/1 to 9/2 to land the Festival opener.

Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle odds

• 10/3: Facile Vega
• 7/2: Marine Nationale
• 4/1: Impaire Et Passe
• 9/2: Il Etait Temps
• 7/1: Gaelic Warrior

2:10

Race two is another Grade One race as El Fabiolo heads the market in a very competitive looking Arkle. El Fabiolo won the Irish Arkle ahead of Banbridge and Appreciate It causing his race odds to shorten from 4/1 into 6/4. Irish Arkle SP favourite, Appreciate It drifted from 7/2 to 10/1 following that run. The leading British challenge will come from the Nicky Henderson-trained, Jonbon.

Jonbon was second behind Constitution Hill in last year’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and has since won 4/4, including two Grade One races. Suffered an almighty scare in a two runner race at Warwick last time out which would’ve unsettled backers but he got the better of El Fabiolo in the Betway Top Novices' Hurdle (Grade One) at Aintree last April and is more than capable of landing this.

Sporting Life Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices’ Chase odds

• 6/4: El Fabiolo
• 7/4: Jonbon
• 9/2: Dysart Dynamo
• 8/1: Sir Gerhard
• 10/1: Appreciate It, Banbridge

3:30

The feature race on day one of the Cheltenham Festival is the Champion Hurdle and the market is dominated by last year’s Supreme winner, Constitution Hill. Since Constitution Hill’s impressive 22-length win at last year’s Festival, Nicky Henderson‘s superstar has landed two further Grade One races.

Having finished 14 lengths clear of Epatante in the Betfair Fighting Fifth Hurdle, Constitution Hill was then even more dominant when landing the Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle at Kempton. At 2/7, Constitution Hill is one of the shortest-priced selections at the Cheltenham Festival but he is many people’s Festival banker for a reason!

Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy odds

• 2/7: Constitution Hill
• 5/2: State Man
• 9/1: Vauban
• 10/1: Honeysuckle
• 16/1: I Like To Move It

4:10

The final Grade One race on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival is the Mares’ Hurdle. Last year’s winner, Marie’s Rock is prominent in the betting having kicked on impressively since last year’s renewal. The Nicky Henderson-trained eight-year-old followed up her Mares’ Hurdle win by landing the Grade One Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle at Punchestown last April.

Following a 246 day break, Marie’s Rock was back in the winners’ enclosure at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day, winning a very competitive Grade Two race.

Despite displaying hugely encouraging form, Marie’s Rock is not the favourite for this year’s Mares’ Hurdle. Last year’s Champion Hurdle winner, Honeysuckle was a surprise inclusion in the Mares’ race but she is the one to beat. Honeysuckle made it a perfect 15 wins from 15 runs at Cheltenham last year before earning a sixteenth consecutive win at Punchestown in April. However, she has struggled in her last two runs and that air of invincibility she once had has diminished.

Love Envoi has won 7/8 previous runs over hurdles, including the Ryanair Mares' Novices' Hurdle at last year’s Cheltenham Festival. However, she was well beaten by Brandy Love at Fairyhouse last April and may struggle to overturn that eight-length defeat next month. Brandy Love is lightly-raced for a seven-year-old and could be the best value in the field.

Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle odds

• 2/1: Honeysuckle
• 10/3: Marie’s Rock
• 4/1: Epatante
• 5/1: Love Envoi
• 15/2: Echoes In Rain
• 8/1: Brandy Love, Queens Brook

1:30

Last year’s Turners was an unforgettable renewal. Perceived as a straight shootout between Galopin Des Champs and Bob Olinger, it was Galopin Des Champs that pulled ahead and looked set to claim the day’s opener before falling at the last hurdle.

This year’s antepost market looks far more competitive with several horses in contention. Mighty Potter pulled up in last year’s Supreme but has bounced back to win all four races since. Notable wins in three Grade One races over in Ireland including; the Bective Stud Champion Novice Hurdle, Bar One Racing Drinmore Novice Chase and Ladbrokes Novice Chase.

The main danger is likely to be El Fabiolo. Willie Mullins six-year-old will make his Cheltenham Festival debut having enjoyed a solid twelve months. Having finished a neck off Jonbon in the Grade One Betway Top Novices' Hurdle at Aintree last April, El Fabiolo has won three from three since. Last seen when claiming a commanding ten-length win in the Irish Arkle last month.

Banbridge and Appreciate It are next in the market and will fare better over the longer trip that their Irish Arkle run. Banbridge in particular will fancy his chances of reversing the Irish Arkle result over the extra three furlongs.

Turners Novices’ Chase odds

• 11/8: Mighty Potter
• 7/4: El Fabiolo
• 4/1: Banbridge, Appreciate It
• 6/1: Sir Gerhard
• 10/1: Dysart Dynamo, Stage Star

2:50

The Ryanair Chase market was blown wide open following the news that Allaho will miss the Festival and a chance of claiming a hat-trick of wins in the race. Allaho hasn’t been seen since winning the Punchestown Gold Cup last April but the 2021 and 2022 Ryanair Chase winner was arguably the most popular antepost selection ahead of this year’s Cheltenham Festival.

Stablemate, Fakir D’Oudairies was immediately installed as the new race favourite but the market was again turned upside down after he was well-beaten by a revitalised, Shishkin in the Betfair Ascot Chase. Shishkin pulled up in last year’s Queen Mother Champion Chase despite going off odds-on and was again a beaten favourite when underwhelming in the Tingle Creek last December. Wind surgery and a step up on trip seems to have done him the world of good and Shishkin would certainly be one of the Festival’s more popular winners.

Ryanair Chase odds

• 8/11: Shishkin
• 4/1: Conflated, Blue Lord
• 7/1: Janidil, Fury Road
• 8/1: Envoi Allen
• 10/1: Fakir D’Oudairies

3:30

The feature race on day three of the Festival is the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle. Flooring Porter was a popular winner for trainer, Gavin Cromwell last year and he has a strong chance of claiming a hat-trick wins in the race. However, Flooring Porter has no wins in three runs since and could only manage fourth in the Jack de Bromhead Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown in December.

Home By The Lee was the Christmas Hurdle winner but he will need to improve massively on his 2022 Stayers’ Hurdle run if he’s to be anywhere near the winners this year.

Blazing Khal won twice at Cheltenham in the Autumn including a C&D win in December‘s Grade Two Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle. Blazing Khal was back in this winners’ enclosure last time out when landing the Boyne Hurdle at Navan.

Teahupoo should not be disregarded but his chances are very-dependent on the ground. The softer the better as far as Teahupoo is concerned and last year’s good to soft track produced a woeful performance in the Champion Hurdle.

Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle odds

• 11/4: Blazing Khal
• 4/1: Teahupoo
• 9/2: Marie’s Rock
• 13/2: Home By The Lee
• 7/1: Flooring Porter
• 9/1: Klassical Dream, Sir Gerhard

The final day of the Festival and we have three more Grade One wins to wrap up the week. The Gold Cup is the standout race of the week and second only to the Grand National in terms of betting revenue. But, before the Gold Cup gets underway we have Grade One action in the Triumph Hurdle and Albert Bartlett.

1:30

Lossiemouth has long been the favourite to land this year’s Triumph Hurdle but antepost backers may have been a little unsettled to see her turned over by stablemate, Gala Marceau at Leopardstown in February. Lossiemouth remains the market leader but has eased from 11/10 to 6/4 whilst Gala Marceau is still well-priced at 5/1.

Willie Mullins has the first three horses in the Triumph Hurdle market and Blood Destiny may well have the beating of both Lossiemouth and Gala Marceau. The four-year-old has had two runs since joining the Mullins yard and he was a comfortable winner on both runs. Blood Destiny made all to win by 18 lengths last time out at Fairyhouse in January and a few horses behind him that day have shown some real promise. Blood Destiny at 5/2 could prove to be a real gem on the final day of the Festival.

JCB Triumph Hurdle odds

• 6/4: Lossiemouth
• 5/2: Blood Destiny
• 5/1: Gala Marceau
• 10/1: Comfort Zone
• 14/1: Bo Zenith

2:50

As usual, the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle looks wide-open this year. Trainer, Willie Mullins won a record-breaking third Albert Bartlett renewal last year with The Nice Guy and his strongest prospect this year is Embassy Gardens. The seven-year-old has never run outside of Ireland but was a 35-length winner at Thurles last time out.

The current market leader is Corbetts Cross who has been backed in from 8/1 to 5/1 in the recent weeks. The six-year-old boasts figures of 12111 this season and landed a tough Grade Two race last time out. Justifiably the race favourite, Corbetts Cross could take some beating.

The big gamble in the race is Monty’s Star. Henry de Bromhead’s entry was 33/1 for this race just three weeks ago but an impressive display when edging out stablemate, Hiddenvalley Lake at Clonmel in mid-February has seen him slashed to 9/1.

Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle odds

• 5/1: Corbetts Cross
• 11/2: Embassy Gardens
• 6/1: Hermes Allen
• 8/1: Hiddenvalley Lake, Three Card Brag, Sandor Clegane
• 10/1: Favori De Champdou, Absolute Notions, Monty’s Star

3:30

The final Grade One race of the Cheltenham Festival is the week’s most high-profile and the race that will command the highest number of bets throughout the entire meeting. The Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most valuable non-handicap race on the UK’s National Hunt calendar and it’s roll of honour includes some of the biggest names in British horse race. Past winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup include Kauto Star, Arkle, Best Mate and Desert Orchid.

Galopin Des Champs is the current 7/4 market leader. That price is shorter than any Gold Cup entry since Bob’s Worth went off at 6/4 back in 2014. Galopin Des Champs is looking to put his 2022 Cheltenham Festival disappointment behind him having fallen at the last hurdle when leading the Turners Novices’ Chase. The Willie Mullins-trained seven-year-old does have a previous Festival win on his record after clinching the 2021 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle.

Galopin Des Champs’ fall at Cheltenham last year is a rare blemish on an excellent recent record. The Gold Cup favourite has won the other seven of his last eight races, stretching back to that 2021 Cheltenham Festival success. Six of those wins came in Grade One races, including the Irish Gold Cup last month.

It will take a brave man to oppose Galopin Des Champs in the Gold Cup so perhaps it’s quite apt that next in the betting is Bravemansgame. Trainer, Paul Nicholls is chasing a record-equaling fifth Gold Cup having won the race previously with See More Business (1999), Kauto Star (2007 & 2009) and Denman (2008). Bravemansgame missed last year’s Festival but has won two from two so far this season. Last run was his 14-length Boxing Day win in the King George VI Chase at Kempton.

Last year’s winner, A Plus Tard is also prominent in the betting but is a very risky selection. Now nine years old, A Plus Tard pulled up in the Betfair Chase last November; his only run since last year’s Gold Cup.

Noble Yeats is an interesting selection, the 2022 Grand National winner is aiming to become just the third horse after Golden Miller and L’Escargot to claim a Grand National / Gold Cup double. Incidentally, Noble Yeats is also the bookies’ favourite in next month’s Grand National.

Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup odds

• 7/4: Galopin Des Champs
• 7/1: Bravemansgame
• 8/1: Noble Yeats, A Plus Tard
• 9/1: Stattler
• 10/1: Shishkin
• 12/1: Conflated
• 14/1: Ahoy Senor, Protektorat