Best bookmaker offers: how to make the most of your Cheltenham Festival betting

Cheltenham Festival: starts on Tuesday and runs until Friday, when the Gold Cup is heldCredit: Edward Whitaker

Cheltenham Festival week is the busiest betting week of the year and bookmakers have plenty of special offers lined up to try to attract the interest of the punters.

Paddy Power are offering three free £5 bets for new and existing customers across the week. Tuesday's and Wednesday's free bets are for the first race of each day, while a free £5 bet on Thursday can be placed on any race.

Ladbrokes are also offering a £5 free bet for any race on the first day of the festival and will be offering extra-place races across the week.

Sky Bet are continuing the money back offer on the first race of the Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday. Losing win bets are refunded up to £10 on the first bet placed.

If you have a Sky Bet account you can also play the ITV7 for free, with a prize of £100,000 available for picking the seven winners of the selected races.

Sky Bet are also offering a standout seven places on the 16-runner Ultima Handicap Chase.

At Betway, a £25,000 jackpot is up for grabs in the free-to-play four to win game. Betway customers need to correctly pick the four winners from the selected day to scoop the jackpot prize.

Coral customers can play the Super Series game for free, whereby players must pick horses to place and will be knocked out of the competition if they fail to. The last one standing wins a share of the £25,000 prize pool.

2021 Cheltenham Festival offers

Paddy Power are giving away three free bets, all you need is an account. Sign up here
Sky Bet have a huge money back offer on the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle. You need an account to take advantage so sign up here
To get a free bet from Ladbrokes today sign up to a new account here
If you've got a Coral account you can place their free-to-play game every day of Cheltenham. They also have an offer for new customers here
View all the promotions that bet365 have for the Cheltenham Festival here
New William Hill customers can claim free bets here as well as benefit from their money back offers here

Coral will also run the fail to finish promotion, where bets of up to £10 will be refunded if a selection falls, unseats or is pulled-up and on Tuesday they are offering an extra place in the Ultima and Boodles handicaps.

Big-priced winners are rewarded for bet365 customers, where if you back a winner of any ITV race at SP odds of 4-1 or more you will be entitled to a risk-free bet, of up to £50, on the following race.

At Betfair, customers are being given three oddsboost tokens to use throughout the festival. This allows the price of a horse to be increased for a bet of up to £25. Betfair are also offering four places instead of three for the Champion Hurdle.

Unibet offer a similar boosting service, called Uniboost, for three bets with a maximum stake of £20.

William Hill also provide the option to boost a price for three horses for £20 win or £20 each-way. William Hill will also refund bets up to £10 if a horses finishes second at the Cheltenham Festival as part of their money back second promotion. They offer a standout five places on the Champion Hurdle.

Wednesday's race previews:

1.20 Cheltenham: Gaillard Du Mesnil has right mix of speed and stamina to give Mullins victory

1.55 Cheltenham: can anything stop relentless Monkfish on his road to chasing superstardom?

2.30 Cheltenham: Gary Moore hoping for festival compensation with Botox Has after Goshen defeat

3.05 Cheltenham: first start in Britain for Chacun Pour Soi on biggest stage of all

3.40 Cheltenham: Tiger Roll 'as enthusiastic as ever' as he bids for fifth festival victory

4.15 Cheltenham: how the festival rejig will impact the Grand Annual

4.50 Cheltenham: 'A major player' – Kilcruit heads Mullins' Champion Bumper fabulous five