Cheltenham Festival Favourites

Betting on the total number of winning SP favourites keeps punters engaged across all 28 Cheltenham Festival races. Will the short-priced favourites reward backers, or will outsiders steal the show?

Historically, around 30% of favourites have won at Cheltenham, making it crucial to track leading trainers, jockeys, and market trends. Some years see hot favourites dominate, while others bring shock results.

In this Winning SP Favourites Guide, we provide betting odds, expert predictions, and past statistics to help you assess how many favourites could triumph at Cheltenham Festival 2027.

What Are The Odds of the Total Number of Winning SP Favourites at Cheltenham Festival 2027?

Bookmakers have released odds on how many SP favourites will win across the 28 races at the Cheltenham Festival 2025. Here’s how the market is shaping up:

• 8 or more winning SP favourites – 2/7
• 9 or more winning SP favourites – 4/9
• 10 or more winning SP favourites – 4/7
• 11 or more winning SP favourites – 5/4
• 12 or more winning SP favourites – 9/4
• 13 or more winning SP favourites – 9/2
• 14 or more winning SP favourites – 10/1
• 15 or more winning SP favourites – 18/1

History of Cheltenham Festival Winning Favourites

Here are the previous standings of how many SP Favourites won:

• 2026 Cheltenham Festival had 9 SP favourite winners
• 2025 Cheltenham Festival had 11 SP favourite winners
• 2024 Cheltenham Festival had 9 SP favourite winners
• 2023 Cheltenham Festival had 9 SP favourite winners
• 2022 Cheltenham Festival had 12 SP favourite winners
• 2021 Cheltenham Festival had 8 SP favourite winners
• 2020 Cheltenham Festival had 8 SP favourite winners
• 2019 Cheltenham Festival had 8 SP favourite winners
• 2018 Cheltenham Festival had 8 SP favourite winners
• 2017 Cheltenham Festival had 7 SP favourite winners
• 2016 Cheltenham Festival had 9 SP favourite winners
• 2015 Cheltenham Festival had 7 SP favourite winners

List of Day 1 Cheltenham Festival Favourites

Here is the list of all races on the first day (Tuesday, 11th March) with the current market leader in the betting odds.

Check out all our Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Betting Tips.

List of Day 2 Cheltenham Festival Favourites

Here is the list of all races on the second day (Wednesday, 12th March) with the current market leader in the betting odds.

Check out all our Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Betting Tips.

List of Day 3 Cheltenham Festival Favourites

Here is the list of all races on the first day (Tuesday, 11th March) with the current market leader in the betting odds.

Check out all our Cheltenham Festival Day 3 Betting Tips.

List of Day 4 Cheltenham Festival Favourites

Here is the list of all races on the first day (Tuesday, 11th March) with the current market leader in the betting odds.

Check out all our Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Betting Tips.

Who are the 2027 Cheltenham Festival Shortest Priced Favourites?

Here are the shortest-priced SP favourites for 2027 Cheltenham Festival

The short odds favourites above are seen by many punters as the bankers of the meeting. Check out who SportsBettingTipsters have listed as their Cheltenham Festival 2027 Banker Bets.

Cheltenham Betting Odds

Our team of professional horse racing tipsters always recommend researching and comparing the best horse racing bookies online to get the highest odds on offer.

Here are some tips for finding the biggest odds for the Cheltenham Festival 2027:

• The best bookmaker for Cheltenham top jockey odds is the Betfair betting site
• The best online bookie for Cheltenham Festival top trainer odds is the Coral betting site
• The best online bookmaker for Cheltenham racing odds across the four days is SkyBet betting site because they provide huge price boosts
• The best betting website for Cheltenham EW bets is the Paddy Power betting site because they regularly offer extra place promotions on the big handicap races
• The best betting site for the Cheltenham Festival 2027 ante-post prices is William Hill bookies, who also offer non-runner no bet promotion for all ante-post bets
• The best bookie for Cheltenham outright winner bets is Bet365, which regularly provides bigger betting odds for favourites to win

When looking for a comparison between online bookmakers, we recommend the Cheltenham Oddschecker page, where they list all the fractional odds to compare between bookies.

FAQ

Can you make money backing favourites at Cheltenham Festival?

Punters can make money backing favourites at Cheltenham Festival because they have a great track record at the Gloucestershire racecourse.

Our team of professional tipsters recommends that you do not give up form research and simply settle for backing favourites, no matter what. Backing all favs at the same level of stakes is not a great betting strategy.

Favourites win around 32 per cent of all Cheltenham races, but the average price is never high enough to give you a level stake profit. So be selective and adjust your stakes depending on how strongly you fancy the SP fave.

Can you make money laying favourites at Cheltenham Festival?

The potential losses of laying favourites at the Cheltenham Festival outweigh the benefits you can win.

Laying thoroughbred horses is something many horse racing punters talk about on Betfair Exchange, but potential loss is usually too much to handle.

Whether you are laying or backing racehorses, you need to gamble responsibly and only wager what you can afford to lose.

Is backing the favourites at Cheltenham good for ante-post bets?

Stop backing favourites at Cheltenham 2025 Festival on ante-post bets unless you are getting an NRNB betting promotion.

It is hard enough trying to back winners at Cheltenham, but on ante-post bets, you don’t always know what race certain horses will be running in.

Many punters have quoted “This will kill me” when they switch races and “I would be gutted if Mullins changes the race” because they had a large bet on the ante-post market.

This year, certain horses like Final Demand, Brighterdaysahead, Lossiemouth and Fact To File have all looked like they are changing races from where bettors have punted them to win on.