About The Cheltenham Edge
What we do
Research-led National Hunt racing analysis, antepost selections and festival tips. We provide:
- Cheltenham Antepost Membership: our antepost selections through the season, building to the Cheltenham Festival.
- Festival Tips for Cheltenham and Aintree: our tips during the week of each festival, with recommended bets and analysis, in a private Telegram channel and your account.
Our approach
Antepost betting is about identifying value before the market has fully settled.
At The Cheltenham Edge, we look beyond simply picking horses that are likely to win. We assess the factors that can create an advantage at the prices available, including a horse’s form, profile, suitability for the race, likely conditions, course and distance, potential targets and how the market is assessing its chances.
The aim is to identify horses whose current odds offer an interesting betting opportunity and to build a portfolio of selections throughout the season rather than relying on a handful of last-minute festival bets.
Prices move and circumstances change, so antepost betting requires patience and an acceptance that not every selection will make it to the Festival.
Members receive the reasoning behind each selection so they can understand why a horse has been added and how we view its prospects.
The Cheltenham Festival is the focus, but the work starts well before March. We follow the National Hunt season throughout the winter, looking for horses and prices that could become significant as the Festival approaches.
There are no guarantees in racing. Our aim is to provide well-researched opinions, identify potential value and give members the information they need to make their own betting decisions.
How every selection is recorded
Each selection is published with the race it is for, the price we advised and the date we advised it, the stake in points, and whether it is to win or each way, with the place terms. As the market moves, we add the price now beside the advised price.
A published selection is never deleted. If a record has to be corrected, the correction is shown with its reason.
How results are calculated
Results are in points, not money, at the advised price and the advised stake. Profit and loss is calculated from every settled selection; nobody types in a total.
- A winning win bet makes the stake times the odds: a 1 point win bet at 10/1 that wins is +10.00.
- An each-way bet is two equal bets: one to win and one to place, at the place terms advised. 0.5 points each way at 20/1, a quarter the odds for four places, is +12.50 if it wins, +2.00 if it places, and −1.00 if it does neither.
- A losing bet loses its stake: the full stake of both parts for an each-way bet.
- Non-runners count as lost, as antepost bets normally are, unless “non-runner no bet” was available when we advised it; then the stake is returned and the result is 0.00.
- Dead heats, Rule 4 deductions and anything unusual are settled by hand, and marked ✱ with the reason.
The totals are points staked, profit or loss, return on stakes, the number of selections, winners and places, and the strike rate, for each season and across all seasons. Open selections are listed separately and never counted early.
Advised prices may not be available to everyone. The figures include only concessions we recorded when advising, such as non-runner no bet. Past results don’t guarantee future results.
Independent
The Cheltenham Edge is independent. It is not affiliated with The Jockey Club, Cheltenham Racecourse or Aintree Racecourse.