Yes, the Cheltenham Festival begins on Tuesday. I do hope some of you managed to get a copy of February’s edition of What Really Wins Money, which will be an able companion throughout the festival and will bring you some winners.
Do also pay attention to the bookmaker offers during the festival. You can, if so inclined, make some real risk-free cash from bookmaker incentives. I have a free bet report for What Really Wins Money newsletter readers, so if you are a member and have a username and password for www.whatreallywinsmoney.co.uk, then download and read the free bet report to ensure you know how to profit from bookmaker bonuses and incentives.
In order to get your juices flowing, take a look here for an idea of the kinds of bookmaker incentives for new accounts, and indeed for Cheltenham Festival specials: http://www.cheltenham-festival.co.uk/cheltenham-free-bets.php.
If you know how to back and lay (as per my free bet report), then the liquidity of the Betfair markets, especially during Cheltenham, should ensure an abundance of risk-free profit.
This site provides you with some of the bookmaker offers which can be turned into risk free profit, as does this one.
If you want to do some work yourself searching for angles into the Cheltenham races, then I can recommend the ‘past winners’ function at www.racingpost.com. Click on ‘Past Winners’ on the race card, and you’ll see this page:
If you think that past trends can be a window into the future, then these past winner tables are very useful. For instance, will Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh really win a third consecutive Supreme Novices Hurdle? Indeed, will Ruby Walsh win a third in four years?
February What Really Wins Money newsletter readers have had all of this work done for them by the Statman and he has come up with some superb angles. He looks at the weight angle, the age of the horses, indeed even their prep races, so goes into greater detail
If you want to do this yourself, focus on the odds of past winners. For instance, in the above example, there has not been a winner priced at 12/1.
I would also recommend you bet each way at Cheltenham. This provides some insurance if your selection places in the first three, or four in a 16+ runner handicap.
And there’s the betting strategy I introduced in last week’s eletter. It had a particularly good Wednesday this week, and came up with a couple of moderate winners yesterday. I’ll share market mover selections with you for Cheltenham @whatreallywins – my Twitter page.
Don’t forget the Irish Angle! http://www.irishracing.com/cheltenham is a great starting point for a unique insight into the runners and trainers from across the Irish Sea.
Keep an eye on this website for the latest Irish news and the Irish trainers’ best horses of the festival. For instance, as I write, Rich Ricci rates Annie Power as his best horse of the festival. I would pay attention in particular to what trainer Willie Mullins has to say!
And if your head has yet to implode from all things Cheltenham, there’s dedicated websites at www.attheraces.com and www.sportinglife.com for you to take a look at.
See you at Twitter @whatreallywins on Tuesday. Have a great festival and a great weekend.