Cheltenham Festival To Showcase The Best of UK & Irish Horse Racing

For horse racing fans around the world, some of the best events throughout the year take place in the UK. When it comes to national hunt racing, the UK schedule is dominated by the Grand National and the Cheltenham Festival.

While the Grand National is a great one-off event, the Cheltenham Festival offers four days of action and 28 races where the best of the best take each other on. Runners from the UK will battle it out against those from Ireland, to see who comes out on top, in what is going to be a very exciting week for spectators.

Headlining is the Gold Cup, the feature race of the meeting, and the latest Cheltenham races odds show that we could be in for an epic encounter. A Plus Tard is currently the +370 favorite, but behind him, we have Galvin at +400, who won at the festival last year, Minella Indo at +740, who won the Gold Cup last year, and Al Boum Photo at +1250, winner of the Gold Cup in 2019 and 2020.

We often find a great deal of excitement in the build-up towards the Gold Cup, and this year, it could be even bigger given how the race is shaping up. One element of the race is the strength of the Irish challengers: they have won the race for the last three years, and of the contenders at the head of the market, almost all are from Ireland.

Elsewhere, both the UK & Ireland have what appears to be a banker in one of the other Championship races over the week.