Cheltenham is about to turn out to be the world’s first £1billion horse racing pageant on Friday (March 15).
An explosion in on-line playing noticed punters from Sydney to Seattle piling money on the 19 races over the primary three days. Fans will wager £200million on the one centesimal anniversary of the Gold Cup alone.
Last 12 months’s winner Galopin Des Champs goes for back-to-back triumphs, whereas super-jockey Rachael Blackmore, 34, is in search of a second victory aboard Jungle Boogie.
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The pageant can be fashionable with well-known faces, resembling Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo, 29, Princess Beatrice, Zara Tindall and TV presenter Stephen Mulhern, who’ve all been noticed on the Gloucestershire course.
InstantCasinos have it at odds of 4/5 to breach the £1bn mark. They mentioned on-line revellers had been lured in by the big variety of races with odds-on favourites – dubbed “Cheltenham Bankers”. In 2023, £600,000 was wager on the racecourse itself – plus hundreds of thousands extra on-line.
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An InstantCasinos spokesman claimed the “popularity” of the pageant meant “both online and on course betting” had been “predicted to be up on last year”. David Stevens, of Coral, mentioned: “The first three days of the Cheltenham Festival are always popular with punters.
“But it’s Gold Cup day that they really look forward to, as it’s by far the biggest betting day of the four.”
Cheltenham concludes on Friday, headlining with the most important occasion of the week, the Gold Cup. Galopin Des Champs is at the moment the bookies favorite, with bet365 having the mare at evens.