Cheltenham Festival 2025: Get Your Tips Out's 51/1 Acca

The talk is nearly over and the 2025 Cheltenham Festival is just hours away. 

Every year we place an acca on betting sites across the week which includes some of our best bets across all four days. I have gone for a bigger price than usual this year, but I still feel this has a great chance of landing. 

I have included two bets on the Tuesday targeting the Arkle and the Mares’ Hurdle, one race on Wednesday with the Brown Advisory, one race on Thursday in the Ryanair and of course one race on the Friday in the shape of the Gold Cup.

Every single runner in my Cheltenham Festival acca is trained by Willie Mullins and that is no bad thing given he has now trained over 100 Cheltenham Festival winners. 

I have backed this to win and I’m very hopeful we’ll have a good run for our money across the week so best of luck if you follow.

Majborough, Arkle Chase (Tuesday, 14:00)

Obviously the key to making money on horse racing long-term is finding value but if you were to take all the odds away and ask me what my most confident selection for the Cheltenham Festival this year would be then I would say Majborough. 

I feel like this horse has the world at his feet and I have followed him from Day 1.

He was an impressive winner of the Triumph at the Cheltenham Festival last season, and the fact he managed to win that given he was such a big raw horse tells you about the amount of ability he has. He has gone over fences this season and won both starts easily. 

He did make a couple of blunders at Leopardstown but never looked like falling and cleared away to win by nine lengths. I see this horse as a future Gold Cup contender down the line and I won’t hear of defeat so hopefully the acca gets off to a flying start.

Lossiemouth - Mares' Hurdle (Tuesday, 15:20)

One of the reasons I didn’t want to share my Cheltenham Festival acca too soon with you guys was down to where Lossiemouth was going. 

I know for the good of racing it would have been amazing to see her mix it with the big boys in the Champion Hurdle, but I can’t help think she might have struggled off the back of that fall at the Dublin Racing Festival. 

They have opted for this much easier assignment and she looks just a class above. The way she has shaped this season I don’t think she is a two-miler anymore, so this longer trip is another huge positive to her chances. 

She beat Stayers’ Hurdle champion Teahupoo at Fairyhouse, despite making errors and then chased home Constitution Hill looking outpaced throughout. 

If she is nonetheworse following that fall at Leopardstown, then I don’t just see her winning this but winning it virtually on the bridle.

Ballyburn - Brown Advisory (Wednesday, 14:00)

Now for my best bet of the Cheltenham Festival this year Ballyburn to win the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase. 

He looked a monster over hurdles last season winning the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival by 13 lengths before going on to win at Punchestown. 

He was always going to make a chaser and made no mistake bolting up by 13 lengths on chase debut back in November. 

He then bumped into Sir Gino at Kempton where the drop back to two miles and the quicker ground clearly went against him. Sir Gino looks an absolute monster, so the reaction looking back now was a bit ridiculous.

With doubters surfacing he went to the Dublin Racing Festival and ultimately won well by five lengths. Briefly, it looked like the race was on, but once he was over the last he was always getting on top and Croke Park is a fair yardstick anyhow. 

He should love going up beyond three miles for the first time, and with just a couple of horses to beat, one of which his stablemate, he should run out a convincing winner. 

He is another one from the Mullins camp I can see contesting Gold Cups in the future and I have actually backed him for next year's big one at 12/1 on betting apps.

Fact To File - Ryanair Chase (Thursday, 15:20)

I’m delighted they have opted for the Ryanair with Fact To File as he looked to be screaming out for a drop back in trip at the Dublin Racing Festival. 

He won the John Durkan at the start of the year, before bumping into his stablemate and Gold Cup hero Galopin Des Champs the last two times.

He is still a horse with considerable potential and I think he’ll run out an impressive winner of this. He was obviously impressive at the Cheltenham Festival last year and has done very little wrong.

The French horse Il Est Francais coming here has made a market, but the latter has bled in the past and is a tricky horse to catch right. 

I don’t think he’ll love Cheltenham and might struggle to come up the hill whereas the selection will be staying on strongly over this trip. 

Bar the front two in the betting on horse racing betting sites, I don’t see many threatening.

I definitely think there is a case to be argued that the Mullins favourite will go off a great deal shorter than the current 6/4 odds.

Galopin Des Champs - Gold Cup (Friday, 16:00) 

I don’t think there is any other horse in training you’d want the last leg of a 50/1 acca to come down to than Galopin Des Champs. He is bidding for the famous three Gold Cups and the opposition seem to be running scared. 

He has everything you want in a racehorse and has obviously been there and done it the last two times. 

It is a tremendous training performance from Willie Mullins and I think you could argue he has actually looked better than ever this season, and is possibly facing the easiest competition he has in this race so understandably he is a very short price.

He is a horse that can do it all, so if they try and take him on early he won’t let that bother him. However, if there is no pace on, he can boss them off the front again. 

He jumped so well at Leopardstown and even a repeat of that performance would likely see him run out a comfortable winner. The quicker ground brings King George hero Banbridge into it, but I’m not convinced he’ll stay this trip thoroughly which makes him vulnerable. 

Monty’s Star looks the possible each-way player, but impossible to look past Galopin Des Great making history.