The UK National hunt racing’s most prestigious meeting will once again draw tens of thousands of racing fans across the United Kingdom and the Irish sea in the year’s biggest racing pilgrimage.

The 25 races that make up the Cheltenham Festival are the most hotly contested of the entire racing calendar, with around 500 horses competing for in excess of £3 million of win and place prize money.

With thirty top quality national hunt races spanning three formats on offer, the Cheltenham Festival offers diversity, breathtaking action and a wide variety of betting opportunities. While a win in any Cheltenham Festival race is a major prize for trainers, owners and jockeys, the feature races run on each day of the festival are some of the most sought after prizes in international horseracing.

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The first major race of the 2008 Cheltenham Festival will be the Champion Hurdle. The greatest hurdles race in national hunt racing has drawn a powerful and highly competitive field this year with several runners set to put in serious challenges for the title. Sizing Europe is the race favourite at 2/1, with Sublimity, Harchibald and Osana all priced as genuine race contenders.

The second day of the 2008 Cheltenham Festival will see the running of the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the festival’s most prestigious and popular ’sprint’ chase. Once again a highly competitive field will set this race alight with four horses priced under 10/1, led by Paul Nicholls’ Twist Magic.

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On Thursday the 13th of March racing fans will have the opportunity to enjoy the World Hurdle, the Cheltenham Festival’s biggest hurdles race for stayers. Howard Johnson’s Inglis Drever is the all-out favourite for this race, priced at almost even odds to re-write the World Hurdle history books with the first ever hat-trick of wins in this race.

The best is saved for last at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival, and racing fans across the world will join in the famous Cheltenham roar as the Cheltenham Gold Cup race runners head for the finish line on Friday the 14th of March. This year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup promises to be the most exciting in recent memory with two brilliant racehorses in Kauto Star and Denman vying for the title.

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