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Cheltenham Day 1 Tips - Race Times & Predictions
Day One of the Cheltenham Festival 2025 gets underway on Tuesday 15th March with one of the greatest weeks of racing anywhere in the world. Held over four days, the Cheltenham Festival has an incredible amount of twists and turns, heroes and heroines with day one at last year’s festival particularly memorable.
Cheltenham Tips for Tuesday & Schedules
Cheltenham Day 1 Tips 2025, Tuesday 15th March, Day 1 Schedule
| Time | Race | Cheltenham Day 1 Tips 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 1:30 | Supreme Novices’ Hurdle | Read Tip |
| 2:10 | Sporting Life Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase | Read Tip |
| 2:50 | Ultima Handicap Chase | Read Tip |
| 3:30 | Unibet Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy | Read Tip |
| 4:10 | The Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle | Read Tip |
| 4:50 | Boodles Juvenile Handicap | Read Tip |
| 5:30 | National Hunt Challenge Cup Chase | Read Tip |
Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Video Preview
Supreme Novices’ Hurdle 2025
Race 1, Tuesday 15th March 1:30
A thrilling start to the best four days of jump racing in the calendar, with the top class novices from Britain and Ireland clashing and the biggest yards represented by their most highly regarded young horses over the two mile trip.
Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott always have strong teams assembled, and the former landed the prize in devastating style in 2021 as Appreciate It stormed clear to land a hefty gamble down to odds-on favouritsim.
Nicky Henderson’s Shiskin won in dramatic style in 2020 (making up plenty of ground to lead up the hill and foil an Irish plunge on the confidently ridden Abracadabras), and the popular former champion trainer has a very strong hand this time around with Constitution Hill and Jonbon both unbeaten over hurdles so far.
Sporting Life Arkle Challenge 2025
Race 2, Tuesday 15th March 2:10
A fantastic spectacle as highly regarded and unexposed novice chasers lock horns over two miles for this valuable Grade 1 prize, and recent winners include Un de Sceaux, Douvan and Altior.
The race is usually run at a strong pace, and sound jumping in the conditions is usually crucial to the outcome. That was certainly the case for a wide open renewal in 2019, with an incident packed race on the soft ground seeing Duc des Genievres take the prize back to Ireland for Willie Mullins.
In 2021 Shiskin landed the odds with the minimum of fuss, and he is now a short-priced favourite for the 2022 Queen Mother Champion Chase on Wednesday this week.
Ultima Handicap Chase 2025
Race 3, Tuesday 15th March 2:50
One of many very competitive handicaps over the four days, with the formlines from Britain and Ireland always extremely hard for punters to assess.
2022 promises a typically wide open 3m1f Ultima handicap chase, open to 5-y-o’s and upwards and always a very competitive betting heat that places plenty of demands on stamina up the hill. Remarkably no Irish trained winner has won since Dun Doire in 2006 for Willie Mullins, and 2019 saw Nicky Henderson’s bold jumping Beware the Bear land the spoils under a strong ride from the now retired Jeremiah McGrath.
This year has been a light ante-post betting heat over the last few weeks, with the layers offering a minimum of 7/1 the field and astute punters should wait for the extra places sure to be on offer for each-way purposes on the day.
Unibet Champion Hurdle 2025
Race 4, Tuesday 15th March 3:30
The highlight of the opening day at the 2022 Festival is the 2m Grade 1 Unibet Champion hurdle, with all the crack two mile hurdlers competing to secure their place in racing history. This has thrown up some memorable winners in the past, with legends like Sea Pigeon, Istabraq, Hardy Eustace, Buveur D’air and most recently Honeysuckle all breaking into the public consciousness.
The 2021 renewal produced a devastating display from Henry de Bromhead’s mare Honeysuckle, destroying a sub-par field under a confident ride from Rachael Blackmore. She is likely to start a very short priced favourite this season to defend her crown, with most of the opposition safely held on form or having plenty to prove at the moment.
Close Brothers Mares Hurdle 2025
Race 5, Tuesday 15th March 4:10
The Grade 1 Mares hurdle has been dominated by Willie Mullins over the past decade, with the maestro trainer winning the race an incredible ten times. The dominance was briefly halted by Dan Skelton’s useful Roksana in 2019, but it is heavy odds-on that the crown will return back to its usual home in 2022.
In 2021 Denise Foster’s gallant Black Tears proved a very game winner in a bunched finish, providing the bookmakers with some respite at an unconsidered 11/1. As a betting heat this is a non-event in the run up to the Festival, with running plans for the principals shrouded in secrecy and the bookmakers reluctant to offer prices in any size as a result.
Boodles Juvenile Handicap 2025
Race 6, Tuesday 15th March 4:50
An ultra competitive juvenile handicap (formerly known as the Fred Winter) that now has a relatively new place in the programme at Cheltenham on Tuesday.
The betting is sure to be wide open and is currently 10-1 the field in the ante-post markets, with the running plans of the principals uncertain (several big names may wait to run in the Triumph hurdle on Friday, though it is not unheard of for some to run in both).
Late market moves can be extremely significant, with the form completely unexposed and several horses laid out for the race from potentially lenient handicap marks.
National Hunt Challenge Chase 2025
Race 7, Tuesday 15th March 5:30
The National Hunt Chase is another relatively new entry on the Tuesday of the Festival, and provides a thrilling spectacle run over 3m6f and open only to amateur riders.
This can be a real war of attrition, with confirmed stayers usually coming to the fore at the end of a very strongly run race where they usually go for home far too soon.
Astute punters should focus in on those jockeys with previous experience, like Jamie Codd or Derek O’Connor, with the pace often far too fast and plenty of runners dropping away as the race draws to a close up the stamina sapping final hill.
Cheltenham 2025 Champion Day Races
After months of hype and speculation (and countless preview evenings on both sides of the water), the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival is always the most eagerly awaited days racing of the entire National Hunt season.
The 2022 Festival sees the return of crowds after covid restrictions meant that numbers were severely limited in 2021, with the racing taking place in virtual silence at the track. All of Britain and Ireland bring over their best horses to take each other on, and the action on the track is matched by ferocious betting heats (with the return of on-course bookmakers eagerly awaited by the legions of punters on both sides of the water who save up a “betting tank” to go to war with the old enemy).
For the gambling industry, these four days can make of break their entire financial year, and for many punters they play in much bigger size than usual (with the quality of the action very high throughout the four days and many ante-post vouchers in play).
The meeting begins with the traditional “Cheltenham roar” as the novices line up for the Supreme Novice Hurdle over two miles, and it is sure to be even more hearty after the enforced silence in 2021. In 2020 Nicky Henderson’s Shiskin showed a terrific attitude to defy the usual Irish dominance in this division, and he has since developed into a cracking chaser who is likely to be a short price for the Queen Mother Champion Chase on Wednesday in 2022. In 2021 Appreciate It got punters off to a flying start, coming home alone to land a wholesale public gamble on the day down to odds-on favouritism.
The Arkle Chase is one of four Grade 1 races on the day, and the 2022 renewal looks sure to be a cracking clash between Ferny Hollow and Edwardstone (both have looked top class in their prep runs over the last few months).
All eyes on the opening day are always focused on the feature Champion Hurdle at 3.30pm, and jumping enthusiasts were treated to a top class display in 2020 as Nicky Henderson’s Epatante landed the cash down to 9/4f. Recent runnings of the race have lacked star quality, with even the prolific Buveur D’Air failing to capture the public imagination and the 2019 running producing a real shock in deep ground when the ill-fated Espoir D’Allen ran out a wide margin winner in really testing ground (all of the front of the market under pressure and well held a mile out).
Honeysuckle landed the 2021 renewal in some style, and she will be back in 2022 in a bid to retain her crown for Henry de Bromhead (likely to be one of the shortest priced favourites of the week under the ever popular Rachael Blackmore).
The David Nicholson Mares hurdle at 4.10pm is one of the quieter betting heats of the week, and things don’t get much easier for punters as the ultra competitive National Hunt amateur riders novice chase draws the day to a close over the stamina sapping 3m6f trip. The skills of the riders will play a crucial part in deciding the outcome, and astute punters will focus on the Irish jockeys like Jamie Codd who have proved themselves time and time again at the top table.
Cheltenham Betting Tips 2025, Tuesday 15th March, Day 1 Race Cards & Selections
Cheltenham Betting Tips 2025, Wednesday 16th March, Day 2 Race Cards & Selections
Cheltenham Betting Tips 2025, Thursday 17th March, Day 3 Race Cards & Selections
| Time | Cheltenham 2025 Tips |
|---|---|
| 1:30 | Marsh Novices Chase Tips |
| 2:10 | Pertemps Network Final Tips |
| 2:50 | Ryanair Chase Tips |
| 3:30 | Paddy Power Stayers Hurdle Tips |
| 4:10 | Paddy Power Plate Tips |
| 4:50 | Mares Novices Hurdle Tips |
| 5:30 | Kim Muir Challenge Cup Tips |
