Cheltenham Festival Fans

Cheltenham Festival Attendances: 2026: Tue: 57,242 Wed: 46,317 Thu: 55,648 Fri: 67,016 Total: 226,223 2025: Tue: 55,498 Wed: 41,949 Thu: 53,366 Fri: 68,026 Total: 218,839 2024: Tue: 60,181 Wed: 46,771 Thu: 53,918 Fri: 69,129 Total: 229,999

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There were eight winning favourites this year (including one joint-favourite). That’s one down on the previous three Festival’s, but…

How did you do this year?

This is what we could be doing today! In may no longer be inevitable, but we stand by our proposal for a fifth day at the Festival (from 4 years ago). cheltenhamfestival.fans/news/a-proposa…

The only certainty at Cheltenham this week

And people say Friday 13th is unlucky? One punter rounded off Cheltenham week with a 50c EW Lucky 63, paying out an amazing €558,595.92 That'll do nicely. 18+ GambleAware

A beautiful sky here at Cheltenham

Odds boosts for the Cheltenham Gold Cup: cheltenhamfestival.fans/betting-offers/

Our preview and tips for today’s race on Gold Cup day at the #CheltenhamFestival cheltenhamfestival.fans/news/cheltenha…

But not everyone agrees!!

Ever since he won last year’s Arkle, we have fancied JANGO BAIE for the Gold Cup and nothing that has happened since has changed our mind.

Only 60 entries in today’s Festival Stable Stars comp so far. Just pick 6 horses and your stable star ⭐ 🥇£500 🥈£300 🥉£200 cheltenhamfestival.fans/stable-stars/

Today’s Cheltenham odds-boosts For more details: cheltenhamfestival.fans/betting-offers/

Enter our free to play Stable Stars comp for Friday’s Festival races. 1st £500, 2nd £300 & 3rd £200. Will likely be less than 150 entries: cheltenhamfestival.fans/stable-stars/

Which of these winners of the feature races so far did you enjoy most?

Top Festival jockeys so far: Paul Townend 3 Harry Skelton 2 James Bowen 2 1 each: Harry Cobden Danny Mullins Nico de Boinville Mark Walsh Richie McLernon Conor Stone-Walsh Charlie Deutsch Colin Keane Tom Bellamy Ben Jones Jack Kennedy J J Slevin Darragh O'Keeffe Shane Cotter

Top Festival trainers so far: Willie Mullins 5 Nicky Henderson 3 Dan Skelton 2 Henry De Bromhead 1 Joseph O'Brien 1 Gavin Cromwell 1 Noel Meade 1 Venetia Williams 1 Kim Bailey & Mat Nicholls 1 Padraig Roche 1 Jonjo & A J O'Neill 1 Ben Pauling 1 Gordon Elliott 1 Cath Williams 1

The Champion Hurdle (Lossiemouth) and Champion Chase (Il Etait Temps) were both won by greys this week. Can Grey Dawning make it a hat-trick in the Cheltenham Gold Cup?