The entries for the Cheltenham Festival handicaps races were announced this week and so now seems a good time to try to steal a little value from bookmakers, with the four days of elite jump racing just around the corner next month.
We still don’t yet know the weights that each horse has been allotted for these races but, in most cases, that’s fairly easy to predict given that official ratings for every horse on both sides of the Irish Sea are updated weekly. As usual, the British handicapper is going to give several of the Irish-based horses a slightly higher rating – and therefore weight – than his Irish counterpart.
As usual too, the bookmakers are not giving much away, whether they are betting on normal ante-post terms (which means there is no return of stakes for any non-runners) or whether they are betting, offering slightly shorter odds, Non-Runner No Bet (NRNB).
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