Cheltenham Festival Ante-Post Selections: Who Will Win The Panel's Head-To-Head?

Cheltenham is not far away and in the build-up to the world’s greatest jumps festival in March, two members of The Panel are fighting it out to be crowned the ante-post king.

Gambling.com’s Dean Ryan and The Racehour’s Diarmuid Nolan will go head-to-head by picking one horse for Cheltenham every Monday for the next seven weeks.

Dean and Diarmuid will explain their thinking behind each selection and state the odds from our sponsor BetVictor so that viewers are in no doubt about which man will emerge as the Cheltenham ante-post chief.

In the final week before Cheltenham, the hosts will also be laying it all on the line with a Lucky 15, so make sure you check in every Monday to watch the sparks fly between these Panel prize fighters.

To get things started, watch the video below as Diarmuid kicks off week one with Diva Luna to win the Mares Novices Hurdle on Thursday, March 13.

Trained by Ben Pauling, the six-year-old mare got 2025 off to a winning start with a 1¾ length victory at Cheltenham in the Maiden Hurdle on New Year’s Day.

Diva Luna can be backed at 12/1 with BetVictor to make it a double success at Cheltenham.

Dean, though, has taken a big gamble right from the off and gone for Willie Mullins’ Impaire Et Passe to win the Brown Advisory on the Wednesday, even though he’s not sure it will run!

Take a look at the table below for all their ante-post tips ahead of this year’s festival.

The Panel's Cheltenham Ante-Post Head-To-Head

Who will come out on top in the search for value and more importantly big-priced winners when it come to the best Cheltenham odds?

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