Cheltenham Festival 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 13 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
One month to go until the greatest show on turf! The Cheltenham Festival! Johnny Dineen is feeling the pressure and has fired a 20/1 handicap selection into his Festival Squad, who would have believed it?! Has the couch to 5k started getting to him? Social media was set alight overnight with footage of Johnny's work at home on the Youghal gallops, DJ catches us all up with how that training is going.
Upping The Ante 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 13 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
One month to go until the greatest show on turf! The Cheltenham Festival! Johnny Dineen is feeling the pressure and has fired a 20/1 handicap selection into his Festival Squad, who would have believed it?! Has the couch to 5k started getting to him? Social media was set alight overnight with footage of Johnny's work at home on the Youghal gallops, DJ catches us all up with how that training is going.
10 February 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 12 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
We finally got a Dublin Racing Festival following a week's worth of suspense, and it absolutely delivered on the big storylines and ante-post shake ups. Where will Lossiemouth now go for the Cheltenham Festival? Can Galopin Des Champs overcome his younger stable rivals and win another Gold Cup and has Johnny now found his Festival banker in the form of Narciso Has?
3 February 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 11 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
The Festival Squads get a huge addition of 3 NEW HORSES in today's episode! The DRF also gets special preview attention with nearly all of Ireland's heavy hitters due to hit the track over the upcoming weekend. Didn't get enough of Johnny's dietary requirements last week? No fear, as many more vegetables and global cuisines get the Dineen treatment this week and Johnny's got another joke of the week to pull out of his locker!
27 January 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 10 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
The DRF is fast approaching and rivalries are getting spicy across the Irish Sea with comments by Marine Nationale trainer Barry Connell on the Clarence House Chase dividing opinion, what was your take on it? DJ takes a leap into the most open race of the festival with his squad pick and Johnny gives the lowdown on coleslaw! All this and more on Upping the Ante Episode 10!
20 January 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 9 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
2026 is now in full flow and all of the boys selections in their Festival Squads have hit the course, giving David Jennings a significant looking lead in the ante-post stakes. DJ looks to add to that with a similar selection this week, to his wildcard winner of 2025. Keep sending your questions to us via email and X for Ask Us Anything. This week Johnny lets us know some of 'the dodgiest things he's ever seen' at the racecourse!
13 January 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 8 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
The time has come! Johnny has got up off the couch, and is tackling the 5k! Training attire and new fitness regimes aside, there's been some more festive fixtures for the lads to get their teeth stuck into and Johnny has a new addition to his growing Festival Squad for the 2026 Cheltenham Festival. The Dirty List gets dirtier and Johnny believes his Star of the Week will likely swerve the festival entirely.
6 January 2026
Upping The Ante | Episode 7 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
Drama galore over the Festive period has significantly changed the ante-post atmosphere. Where do Johnny and DJ's Festival Squad positions look going into the new year? And are those squads going to be significantly added to in the coming weeks? Find out this and more in Episode 7 of Upping The Ante!
30 December 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 6 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
Christmas Racing is here and that only means one thing! TOP QUALITY ACTION both sides of the Irish Sea! DJ and Johnny preview all the best races on St Stephen's Day / Boxing Day, discuss their favourite festive films and wax lyrical about a newcomer that Johnny believes could be a 'proper Gold Cup horse' of the future.
23 December 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 5 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
Johnny is making a UK racecourse visit this week, will it provide him with plenty of ammo for next week's show? One novice hurdler really catapulted themselves into his spotlight over the past weekend, but what were his thoughts on Kateira following their loss after being so bullish in Episode 4? Also, Johnny and DJ create their ultimate fantasy stable, can you guess who made the cut?
16 December 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 4 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
DJ has decided that he can no longer sit on his festival squad selection, as his theory is that the price has already fallen and could continue to tumble in the coming weeks. Johnny's not entirely given up on one weekend performer, but another has joined the unbackable list. How did Johnny fare with his wife's birthday present? And what new words has he invented over the past week? Find out this and much more in Episode 4 of Upping The Ante!
9 December 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 3 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
The boys are back with two new Festival Teams tips for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival, 50/1 and 25/1 prices are sure to set tongues wagging on social media, will either of their selections prove to be massively overpriced come March? The big question of Constitution Hill and his future gets the Johnny Dineen treatment, as does the idea of tech analytics in the sport!
2 December 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 2 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
Festival favourites are now off and running with mighty battles between the likes of Gaelic Warrior and Fact To File happening over the weekend. Other Cheltenham Festival winners in Wodhooh and Grey Dawning also impressed, but who didn't? And what is Johnny Dineen going to do when his stint on Upping The Ante comes to an end? These questions and more are answered in this week's show!
25 Nov 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 1 | Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-Post Tips
The boys are BACK with a brand new series of Upping The Ante for the lead up to the 2026 Cheltenham Festival. Johnny returns for 'One last roll of the dice' on his hunt to discover the biggest and best ante-post Cheltenham tips for the National Hunt horse racing season's showpiece event.
18 Nov 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 18 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Review
With the Cheltenham Festival of 2025 now done and dusted, the boys review all the action from the week, the winners, unlucky losers and those to look out for in future. Your post-festival questions are answered and a horse is selected to put in your Racing Post Trackers. Both David Jennings and Johnny Dineen achieved two winners in their Upping The Ante Festival Squads, but who won between them this season?
18 Mar 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 17 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Today’s episode will see the panel look forward to the week ahead and the entire Cheltenham Festival 2025 from race to race, offering up their top selections in all the best races. David and Johnny will also give their NAPS, LAYS & WANGAROO'S!
6 Mar 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 16 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, look ahead and preview the weekend's action. Johnny has been hot on the festival preview night circuit and has some nuggets of information from those close to the action. He also has an interesting take on the time between big festivals, an opinion shared by Ruby Walsh.
4 Mar 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 15 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, look ahead and preview the weekend's action.
25th Feb 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 14 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, look ahead and preview the weekend's action, and Johnny adds two more horses to his Cheltenham Festival Squad.
11th Feb 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 13 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week from the Dublin Racing Festival. With DJ's Festival Squad being full, it's time for Johnny to bring forth his next Cheltenham Festival selection, this week it's a juvenile handicapper!
4th Feb 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 12 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week. Weighing-In protocol is the subject of Johnny's Joke of the Week and DJ fills the last remaining spot in his Festival Squad (for now).
28th Jan 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 11 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 11 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week and DJ continues to add to his Festival Squad. Johnny also airs his beef with the camera work performed at Irish tracks. Should more camera's be implemented on race days to offer more complete coverage?
21st Jan 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 10 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 10 of Upping The Ante with @bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week and DJ picks out two 20/1 shots to add in to his Festival Squad. Johnny also questions whether Aintree Racecourse could put on flat racing fixtures during the summer months.
14th Jan 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 9 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 9 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week and Johnny has two different subjects he wanted to take centre stage for with his Joke of the Week! One sure to ignite a bit of debate.
7th Jan 2025
Upping The Ante | Episode 8 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 8 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week. Johnny has been busy in the form book over Christmas and delivers two more Festival Squad selections and mares allowances come into question in Johnny's joke of the week.
31st Dec 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 7 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week. Johnny is double handed in his Festival Squad selections, but with a slight twist! The boys preview a plethora of Christmas time racing action from Kempton, Leopardstown & Chepstow, and Johnny targets naming processes in his joke of the week!
23rd Dec 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 6 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 5 of Upping The Ante with @bet365 ! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week. Johnny finally puts up his second Cheltenham Festival Squad selection and DJ thinks outside the box with his own Squad selection at 50/1! The pair also tackle the question of how to make the raceday more entertaining for punters who go on course.
17th Dec 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 5 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 5 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions and Johnny gives us his stars of the week. What would Johnny really do with a Euromillions jackpot? We find out that, along with his thoughts on social media interactions on the likes of X and who Jonbon's main rival could potentially be in the Champion Chase.
10th Dec 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 4 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 4 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week. He also has a bone to pick with British racing fans' views on handicaps and takes a very strong stance on which Cheltenham race Lossiemouth will be aimed at.
3rd Dec 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 3 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 3 of Upping The Ante with bet365! On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week, opinion is divided on the winner of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle, and Johnny's Joke of the Week sees his focus laser in on British stall handlers!
26th Nov 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 2 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 2 of Upping The Ante with bet365. On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week, the pair debate the upcoming Betfair Chase and Johnny has early regrets about his Festival Squad!
19th Nov 2024
Upping The Ante | Episode 1 | Cheltenham Festival 2025 Ante-Post Tips | Racing Post
Join David Jennings and Johnny Dineen for Episode 1 of Upping The Ante with bet365. On this week's episode, David and Johnny answer your questions, Johnny gives us his stars of the week, one for the Racing Post tracker and a midweek tip. Both Johnny and David also kickstart their 2025 Cheltenham Festival squads with one ante-post tip each.
12th Nov 2024
In The Know: Cheltenham Festival 2026 Preview Shows
Cheltenham Festival Ante-post Preview | Tips from Paul Kealy & Graeme Rodway | In The Know
Join Ross Brierley, Assistant Betting Editor Graeme Rodway and Tipster Paul Kealy as they preview the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, Brown Advisory Novices' Chase & Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival 2026.
9 Feb 2026
Cheltenham Festival 2026 Ante-post Preview | Tips from Graeme Rodway & Tom Segal | In The Know
Join Ross Brierley, Assistant Betting Editor Graeme Rodway and Pricewise Tom Segal as they preview the Stayers Hurdle, Champion Hurdle & Arkle Chase at the Cheltenham Festival 2026.
2 Feb 2026
Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Tips | Tom Segal, Paul Kealy & Ross Brierley | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Tom Segal & Coral's Simon Clare as they preview Day 4 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
13 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 3 Tips | Tom Segal, Robbie Wilders & Ross Brierley | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Robbie Wilders, Tom Segal & Coral's David Stevens as they preview Day 3 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
12 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Tips | Tom Segal, Robbie Wilders & Ross Brierley | In the Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Robbie Wilders, Tom Segal & Coral's David Stevens as they preview Day 2 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
11 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Tips | Tom Segal, Paul Kealy & Ross Brierley | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Tom Segal & Coral's Simon Clare as they preview Day 1 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
10 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Preview Show LIVE | Episode 5 | Horse Racing Tips | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Graeme Rodway, Maddy Playle & Coral's David Stevens as they preview the main Grade 1 Races at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
3 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Preview Show LIVE | Episode 4 | Horse Racing Tips | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Tom Segal & Coral's David Stevens as they preview Ryanair Chase, Turners Novice Hurdle, Mares Chase & Mares Novice Hurdle at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
24 Feb 2025
Cheltenham Festival 2025 Preview Show LIVE | Episode 3 | Horse Racing Tips | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Tom Segal & Coral's Simon Clare as they preview The Gold Cup, Stayers Hurdle, Triumph Hurdle & the Albert Bartlett at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
17 Feb 2025
Cheltenham Festival Preview Show LIVE | Episode 2 | Horse Racing Tips | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Maddy Playle & Coral's David Stevens as they preview The Champion Chase, Champion Bumper, Mares Hurdle & The Brown Advisory Chase at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
10 Feb 2025
Cheltenham Festival 2025 Preview Show LIVE | Episode 1 | Horse Racing Tips | In The Know LIVE
Join Ross Brierley, Racing Post Tipsters Paul Kealy, Tom Segal & Coral's David Stevens as they preview The Champion Hurdle, Supreme Novice Hurdle & The Brown Advisory Chase at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
07 Feb 2025
Cheltenham Festival 2024 Preview Show | Episode 4
Join Ross Brierley, Paul Kealy, Tom Segal and Coral's Simon Clare for episode four of our Cheltenham Festival previews. On this week's episode the panel cover the Champion Hurdle, Ryanair, Triumph Hurdle & Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle.
04 Mar 2024
Cheltenham Festival 2024 Preview - Episode 3
Join Ross Brierley, Paul Kealy, Tom Segal and Coral's Simon Clare for episode three of our Cheltenham Festival previews. On this week's episode the panel cover the Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle, Turners Novices' Chase, Mares' Chase & Cheltenham Gold Cup.
26 Feb 2024
Cheltenham Festival 2024 Preview - Episode 2
Join Ross Brierley, Paul Kealy, Tom Segal and Coral's David Stevens for episode one of our Cheltenham Festival previews. On this week's episode the panel cover the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, Arkle Novices' Chase, the Mares' Hurdle and Queen Mother Champion Chase.
19 Feb 2024
Cheltenham Festival 2024 Preview - Episode 1
Join Ross Brierley, Paul Kealy, Tom Segal and Coral's Simon Clare for episode one of our Cheltenham Festival previews. On this week's episode the panel cover the Champion Hurdle, Brown Advisory Novices' Chase and the Stayers' Hurdle
12 Feb 2024
Good Morning Cheltenham 2025 | Cheltenham Festival Preview
Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Preview | Tips from David Jennings, Martin Dixon & Graeme Rodway
Join David Jennings, Graeme Rodway, Daryl Jacob, Martin Dixon and Tom Nugent as they provide their best horse racing tips for day four of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
14 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 3 Preview | Tips from Paul Kealy, Johnny Dineen, Daryl Jacob & Kevin O'Ryan
Join David Jennings, Johnny Dineen, Paul Kealy, Daryl Jacob and Kevin O'Ryan as they provide their best horse racing tips for day three of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Key races include the Mares' Novices' Hurdle, Ryanair Chase and Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle.
13 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Preview | Tips from Paul Kealy, Aidan Coleman & Maddy Playle
Join David Jennings, Paul Kealy, Aidan Coleman, Maddy Playle and Martin Dixon as they provide their best horse racing tips for day two of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Key races include the Turners Novices' Hurdle, Brown Advisory Novices' Chase and Champion Chase.
12 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Preview | Tips from David Jennings, Graeme Rodway & Martin Dixon
Join David Jennings, Graeme Rodway, Martin Dixon, Kevin O'Ryan and Tom Nugent as they provide their best horse racing tips for day one of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Key races include the Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Novices' Hurdle, Arkle Novices' Chase, Mares' Hurdle and Champion Hurdle.
11 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Festival Preview | Tips from Paul Kealy, Johnny Dineen & David Jennings | Paddy Power
Join David Jennings, Johnny Dineen, Paul Kealy, Martin Dixon and Tom Nugent as they provide their best horse racing tips for the week ahead at the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
10 Mar 2025
2025 Cheltenham Festival Show Live | Horse Racing Tips | Racing Post | Unibet
David Jennings is joined by Paul Kealy, Tom Segal, Nicky Henderson, Nico De Boinville and Ed Nicholson from Unibet to provide the best horse racing tips for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Our star studded panel cover every race of this year's festival and provide you with their best bets for each day. The show ends with our panel giving us their NAP for the week. It's not long now until the Cheltenham Festival 2025 gets under way!
3 Mar 2025
Cheltenham Stable Tours 2025
Paul Nicholls Stable Tour | 2025 Cheltenham Festival | Racing Post
We took a trip to Ditcheat to speak to Paul Nicholls, who talked us through his main chances for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Despite Nicholls maybe not having his strongest season to date, the 14 time Champion trainer still has some fire power with the likes of Caldwell Potter, Monmiral & Ginny's Destiny set to take to Cheltenham this year.
25 Feb 2025
Dan Skelton Stable Tour | 2025 Cheltenham Festival | Racing Post
We took a trip to Warwick to speak to Dan Skelton, who talked us through his main chances for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Skelton looks to have some strong players for the week, including Protektorat, The New Lion and Langer Dan.
21 Feb 2025
Nicky Henderson Stable Tour | 2025 Cheltenham Festival | Racing Post
We took a trip to Seven Barrows to speak to Nicky Henderson, who talked us through his main chances for the 2025 Cheltenham Festival. Henderson looks to have some major players for the week, including superstar Constitution Hill, Jonbon and Lulamba.
17 Feb 2025
Fergal O'Brien, Jamie Snowden, Ben Pauling and Willie Twiston-Davies
Paul Kealy catches up with four trainers looking forward to a big week at Prestbury Park including Fergal O'Brien, Jamie Snowden, Ben Pauling and Willie Twiston-Davies.
29 Feb 2024
Paul Nicholls Stable Tour
Paul Kealy paid a visit to Ditcheat to speak to champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who talked us through his main chances for the 2024 Cheltenham Festival.
28 Feb 2024
Nicky Henderson Stable Tour
We took a trip to Seven Barrows to speak to Nicky Henderson, who talked us through his main chances for the 2024 Cheltenham Festival.
23 Feb 2024