Best betting offers and ante-post tips for Cheltenham Festival 2023

The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle of the jumps season and the time of year bookmakers bring out their best betting offers to entice customers to sign up for a new account.

Here we will list the best bookmaker sign-up offers, free bets and bonuses available on the market. What's more, we will continually update these as the festival draws closer and bookmakers fall over themselves to get you on board.

As well as those betting offers, we've got Cheltenham ante-post tips from our team of experts at the Racing Post. They've gone through all the races and picked out the ante-post selections they think are a bigger price now than they will be in March.

As the Cheltenham Festival nears and the main protagonists have played their hands, more ante-post tips will be added so you've got plenty of runners onside when the tape is lifted ahead of the first race of the week.

Best Cheltenham betting offers

Betfair Cheltenham free bets

Place a £10 bet and get £30 in free bets

Place a minimum £/€10 bet on the Sportsbook at odds of minimum 1/2 (1.5) and get £/€30 in free bets. Rewards valid for 30 days. SMS verification required. Only deposits via cards or Apple Pay will qualify. T&Cs apply.

Paddy Power Cheltenham free bets

Get up to £50 in free sports bets

Place a single £10 Sportsbook bet and get money back as a free bet if it loses. There are x 5 free bets available. Maximum refund per qualifying bet is £10. Only deposits made via cards will be eligible for the promotion (Apple Pay excluded). T&Cs apply.

William Hill Cheltenham free bets

Bet £10 get £30 in free bets

Play safe. From 00:01 on 13.04.2022. £30 bonus. New customers only. Minimum £10 stake on odds of 1/2 (1.5) or greater on the sportsbook. Further terms apply. 18+.

Coral Cheltenham free bets

Get a £20 free bet when you place a £5 bet

18+. New UK & ROI customers only. Minimum deposit £/€5. Minimum first £/€5 bet at minimum odds of 1/2 to qualify for 1 x £/€20 free bet. Certain deposit methods and bet types are excluded. Free bet valid for seven days. Stake not returned. Restrictions + T&Cs apply.

Sky Bet Cheltenham free bets

Get £20 in free bets when you place a £5 bet

New customers only. First single and each-way bet only. Fractional odds of 1/1 (decimal 2.0) or greater. 4 x £5 bet tokens. Free bet stakes not included in returns. Free bets exclude virtuals. Free bets are non-withdrawable. No free bet expiry. Eligibility restrictions. Further T&Cs apply.

bet365 Cheltenham free bets

Place a £10 bet and get £50 in free bets for new customers at bet365

Minimum deposit requirement. Free bets are paid as Bet Credits and are available for use upon settlement of qualifying bets. Minimum odds, bet, and payment method exclusions apply. Returns exclude Bet Credits stake. Time limits and T&Cs apply.

Ladbrokes Cheltenham free bets

Bet £5 and get £20 in free bets

18+. New UK+IRE customers only. Certain deposit methods and bet types are excluded. Minimum first £/€5 bet within 14 days of an account registration at minimum odds of 1/2 to get 4 x £/€5 free bets. Free bets are available to use on selected sportsbook markets only. Free bets are valid for seven days, and the stake is not returned. Restrictions + T&Cs apply.

How to claim your Cheltenham betting offers

We've given you all the best Cheltenham betting offers and now you need to know how to take advantage of them. Below is a simple step-by-step guide to registering – you just need to pick which ones you want to claim.

Here's how to sign up for an account and get your welcome bonus free bet at each bookmaker you select. You can sign up by using your mobile or desktop computer.

1. Select a bookmaker from the above list and click the link to begin. The process is the same for any apps covered on this page.
2. Complete the registration form, adding all the necessary information to register your account.
3. A few betting apps require you to enter a unique promo code when joining. If this is the case, the code will be supplied during registration.
4. Deposit funds to your betting account using an accepted method, such as a debit card, and place a qualifying sportsbook bet. Look out for minimum odds.
5. When the qualifying bet results, the free bet tokens will be automatically added to your account balance and can be used.

Cheltenham Festival 2023 ante-post tips

So, you've got your free bets at the ready, now what do you bet on? Here are some of the best Cheltenham Festival 2023 ante-post tips our experts have to offer . . .

The Real Whacker
Brown Advisory Novices' Chase (2.10 Cheltenham, March 15)

A seven-year-old who has raced just six times in his career, he gave notice of his potential over hurdles when second in the River Don at Doncaster 12 months ago. Chasing was always going to be his game, though, and he is really improving now, winning both starts at Cheltenham. The Grade 2 Dipper has proved a cracking guide for the festival of late, and three of the last five home-based winners of this event ran in that contest, including two in the last three years.
James Stevens

Balco Coastal
Turners Novices' Chase (1.30 Cheltenham, March 16)

I think Balco Coastal's second in the Scilly Isles earlier this month has been largely ignored. Rated 133 over hurdles, Nicky Henderson's seven-year-old looked to have plenty to prove at Sandown coming off the back of a novice handicap chase victory off the same mark but he stepped up on that effort with an excellent round of jumping to run Brown Advisory favourite Gerri Colombe close.
James Stevens

Banbridge
Turners Novices' Chase (1.30 Cheltenham, March 16)

Bookmakers can often react far too hastily to a defeat, and his position behind Mighty Potter is not evidence to suggest he's not up to this level when conditions suit at a track that clearly does after last season's victory in the Martin Pipe and this season's Arkle Trial. He might be ground-dependent in the opposite way to Mighty Potter, but he's also 16-1 and that looks way too big considering I can't see why he would go anywhere else.
Paul Kealy

Klassical Dream
Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle (3.30 Cheltenham, March 16)

We haven't seen much of him lately, but his neck second to Teahupoo in the Hatton's Grace, with Honeysuckle two and a half lengths behind, shows him to be every bit as good as he has ever been, and the price discrepancy between him and the winner is daft, especially as Klassical Dream is the one who will have no problems with better ground.
Paul Kealy

Jetara
Ryanair Mares' Novices' Hurdle (4.50 Cheltenham, March 16)

Ashroe Diamond will have a 5lb penalty for her Solerina victory when she beat Jetara by a length and a quarter. That rival is 16-1 in the market which, given she'll be 5lb better off with Ashroe Diamond, doesn't make much sense.
James Stevens

Noble Yeats
Cheltenham Gold Cup (3.30 Cheltenham, March 17)

At this stage, the one I like most is the Grand National winner Noble Yeats. At Aintree, he and Any Second Now came well clear of some top-class horses and Noble Yeats looked better than ever in the Many Clouds last time. I wouldn't underestimate that form as he inflicted Ahoy Senor's first defeat at Aintree there, the runner-up Dashel Drasher came out and ran second in the Relkeel Hurdle and Sounds Russian failed narrowly to give lumps of weight to a big improver next time.

Racing Post Ratings have Noble Yeats some 7lb behind the likes of Galopin Des Champs and Bravemansgame but he's improving all the time and, unlike them, the one thing we can be sure of is that he will stay on strongly up the hill.
Tom Segal

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