The 2025 Cheltenham Festival: The Biggest Event in Horse Racing
The 2025 Cheltenham Festival is horse racing’s biggest event of the year and it’s fast approaching.
The sport’s best horses and jockeys are preparing to take to the iconic course for a brilliant week of racing action. Galopin des Champs and Paul Towned have won two Gold Cups in a row, defending their crown last year and making history. All eyes will be on Galopin Des Champs as he aims to make it a hat-trick on the final day of the festival. Other notable horses to watch include Constitution Hill, Jonbon, and Lossiemouth.
Cheltenham Festival 2025: Dates and Start Times
This year’s Cheltenham Festival will start on Tuesday, March 11 and will run for four days, ending on Friday, March 14. Each day of action will include seven races, making a total of 28 races throughout the week. Racing will begin at around 1:20pm each day, with 40-minute intervals between races. The biggest races of each day are typically scheduled for 4pm, and the final races will take place at 5:20pm. Each day of the festival has its own theme, with Tuesday being Champion Day, Wednesday as Style Wednesday, Thursday as St. Patrick’s Thursday, and Friday as Gold Cup Day.
Cheltenham Festival 2025: TalkSPORT Coverage
TalkSPORT will have live coverage of all the action from Cheltenham. Commentators will be on the course each day, bringing you coverage of all the races throughout the festival. You can tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, or listen via the talkSPORT app, DAB digital radio, smart speakers, and AM frequencies 1089 or 1053. TalkSPORT.com will also provide the latest build-up and reaction. Free-to-air coverage of the festival will be available on ITV.
Cheltenham Festival 2025: Betting Tips
TalkSPORT will provide you with all the latest tips and free bet offers throughout the festival. Odds will be available on talkSPORT BET, and our resident tipster will be selecting multiple picks for each day of racing. Check the current odds for Cheltenham at talkSPORT BET, and find the best Cheltenham Festival free bet offers from talkSPORT and our partners across the website during the week.
Cheltenham Festival Tips
Cheltenham Festival 2025: Race Schedule
Champion Day – Tuesday, March 11
- 13:20 – Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
- 14:00 – Arkle Novices’ Chase
- 14:40 – Handicap Steeple Chase
- 15:20 – Mares’ Hurdle
- 16:00 – Champion Hurdle
- 16:40 – Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
- 17:20 – National Hunt Novices’ Chase
Style Wednesday – Wednesday, March 12
- 13:20 – Turners Novices’ Hurdle
- 14:00 – Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase
- 14:40 – Coral Cup Hurdle
- 15:20 – Cross Country Steeple Chase
- 16:00 – Queen Mother Steeple Chase
- 16:40 – Grand Annual Steeple Chase Challenge Cup
- 17:20 – Champion Bumper
St. Patrick’s Thursday – Thursday, March 13
- 13:20 – Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle
- 14:00 – Jack Richards Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase
- 14:40 – Pertemps Network Final
- 15:20 – Ryanair Steeple Chase
- 16:00 – Stayers’ Hurdle
- 16:40 – TrustATrader Plate Handicap Chase
- 17:20 – Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup
Gold Cup Day – Friday, March 14
- 13:20 – Triumph Hurdle
- 14:00 – County Handicap Hurdle
- 14:40 – Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Steeple Chase
- 15:20 – Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
- 16:00 – Cheltenham Gold Cup
- 16:40 – Festival Hunters Chase
- 17:20 – Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle
Cheltenham Festival 2025: What has Been Said?
With there said to be a shortage of Guinness at this year’s event, talkSPORT’s Alan Brazil has threatened to boycott the festival. He said, We don’t go! “Fans would go ballistic, the charge at 10:30am when the gates open, they’d be in mourning!” “There has to be Guinness at Cheltenham! Ridiculous!
