Top horse races for betting list highlights Cheltenham appeal
With the 2023 Cheltenham Festival about to begin, Coral’s parent company, Entain, has issued a list of the top horse races for betting in 2022 that highlight the huge appeal of the four-day meeting to punters, and the significance of the week to both the betting and racing industries.
Most notably, taking online and shop turnover into account, all 28 races staged at the Cheltenham Festival last year appear in the top 35 betting races of 2022.
Six of the seven races staged on the Friday feature in the 11 top horse races for betting last year, including the St James’s Place Hunters’ Chase.
Coral’s David Stevens said: “The turnover figures for last year prove beyond doubt that the Cheltenham Festival is the biggest, most important week of the year for bookmakers and their customers, and well deserving of the attention on it for months leading up to it.
“Betting turnover on Gold Cup day steps up to even greater levels compared to the first three days of the Festival, with six of the seven races on Friday in the top 11 betting races of the year.
“This is a sporting and betting event that builds to a crescendo and ends on a high with a massive final day of betting that can leave us celebrating or counting the cost, but either way, looking forward to doing it all again in 12 months’ time.”
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Constitution Hill is 1/3 favourite with Coral for Tuesday’s Champion Hurdle, while Facile Vega is 15/8 market leader for the opening Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.
The firm cannot split 13/8 joint favourites, El Fabiolo and Jonbon, in the Sporting Life Arkle betting.
Top horse races for betting in 2022
1 The Grand National
2 Cheltenham Gold Cup
3 Derby
4 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
5 Champion Hurdle
6 Champion Chase
7 Triumph Hurdle
8 Hunters’ Chase
9 Ryanair Chase
10 County Hurdle
11 Martin Pipe Handicap Hurdle
12 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
13 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle
14 Scottish Grand National
15 Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle
16 Coral Cup
17 Stayers’ Hurdle
18 Cross Country Chase
19 Pertemps Handicap Hurdle
20 Arkle Trophy
21 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase
22 The Plate Handicap Chase
23 Champion Bumper
24 Ultima Handicap Chase
25 Boodles Handicap Hurdle
26 Mares’ Hurdle
27 Mares’ Chase
28 Kim Muir
29 Oaks
30 King George VI Chase
31 Grand Annual
32 2,000 Guineas
33 Irish Grand National
34 Turners Novices’ Chase
35 National Hunt Chase
36 Marsh Chase (Aintree)
37 Platinum Jubilee Stakes
38 King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes
39 Ascot Gold Cup
40 Coral-Eclipse
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