The Cheltenham Festival is the biggest week of the National Hunt racing calendar, and UK bookmakers compete hard for attention across its four days — from welcome free bets you can use on the Festival to enhanced each-way terms and daily price boosts on marquee races like the Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle. This page compares the current offers and explains how to use them across Festival week.
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Welcome free bets are the natural entry point for new customers wanting to bet on Cheltenham — most can be staked on any Festival race, subject to the offer's own minimum-odds condition. Because the Festival runs across four consecutive days, a single welcome offer can often be spread across multiple races rather than used all at once.
Enhanced each-way terms are common around the Festival specifically — some bookmakers extend the standard place terms (for example paying 5 places instead of 4, or a better fraction of the odds) on the biggest handicap races, where large fields make each-way betting especially popular.
Price boosts and money-back specials tend to cluster around the four championship races — the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase, Stayers' Hurdle and Gold Cup — as well as the big-field handicaps like the County Hurdle and the Coral Cup. These change daily through Festival week, so it's worth checking each morning.
Because National Hunt racing carries genuine risk of non-runners and fallers, check how each offer treats a void or non-completed race before staking a free bet on it — most free bets are refunded if the race itself doesn't count as settled, but the exact rule varies by bookmaker.