Cheltenham Festival Antepost Betting

Cheltenham Festival ante post betting is really what ante post betting is all about. For a full year the Cheltenham Festival races have the most active ante post markets of any ante post betting markets including the Aintree Grand National and the Epsom Derby.

The Four main Cheltenham Festival ante post races that are the most active and they are the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle ante post market, the Queen Mother ante post race, the Ladbroke World Hurdle ante post and of course the Cheltenham Gold Cup ante post market.

Ante post betting does carry risk and reward. The risk is that if you have a Cheltenham Festival ante post bet and your selection does not run for any reason you lose your stake. The rewards of Cheltenham Festival ante post betting are that the price you get will in 9 times out of ten will be bigger than if you backed the horse on the day.

In recent times with the introduction of Betting Exchanges in particular Betfair ante post betting has taken on a new lease of life as many people now bet on the big Cheltenham festival races in the ante post market and lay off closer to the time and so making a tidy profit out of trading their Cheltenham Festival ante post bets.