Steve Ryder has picked out his top 10 betting trends for Day 1 at the Cheltenham Festival.
We’ve been collating all of our favourite betting trends for the whole week, starting from Day 1 before rolling into Ladies Day, St Patrick's Day and Cheltenham Gold Cup Day.
For those of you eyeing up free bets on the opening day, you can find Steve Ryder’s top 10 below. You can also find Cheltenham tips from all our usual tipsters as well as Aidan Coleman and Road to Cheltenham.
- Willie Mullins has trained the winner of the Supreme Novices' Hurdle in five of the last 12 renewals
- 26 of the previous 33 Arkle Chase winners were aged six or seven
- 16 of the previous 22 winners of the Arkle had run three or four times over fences
- Irish trained horses 0-46 in the Ultima Handicap Chase since 2006
- Seven of the last 10 Ultima winners had all run at Cheltenham so far that season
- 14 of the previous 17 Mares' Hurdle winners were trained in Ireland
- 10 of the previous 17 Mares' Hurdle winners were trained by Willie Mullins
- The Champion Hurdle has been won by an odds-on favourite for the past three years and it is in fact a race that favourites have a superb record in with 10 winning favourites in the past 14 renewals
- Mares have a good record in the Champion Hurdle with four winners in the previous nine renewals of the race (all were sent off favourite)
- The last 10 winners of the Champion Hurdle were all unbeaten that season
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