Cheltenham Festival 2017 gets underway on Tuesday and you don’t want to miss this Betfair offer! Simply back a winner at SP odds of 3/1 or more on any Cheltenham race televised live on ITV Racing and Betfair will give us a free bet to the same stake, up to £25.00. Translated into matched betting terms, this gives us a potential profit of £100.00+ and here’s how…
Qualifying Bets:
If you’re unfamiliar with qualifying bets, please see my Qualifying Bet Strategy page for a walk-through guide on how it should be done.
This offer is available on 5 races each day as follows…
Day | Time | Race |
---|---|---|
Tuesday | 1.30 | Supreme Novices’ Hurdle |
Tuesday | 2.10 | Arkle Chase |
Tuesday | 2.50 | Ultima Handicap Chase |
Tuesday | 3.30 | Champion Hurdle |
Tuesday | 4.10 | Mares Hurdle |
Wednesday | 1.30 | Neptune Novices’ Hurdle |
Wednesday | 2.10 | RSA Chase |
Wednesday | 2.50 | Coral Cup |
Wednesday | 3.30 | Champion Chase |
Wednesday | 4.10 | Cross Country Chase |
Thursday | 1.30 | JLT Novices’ Chase |
Thursday | 2.10 | Pertemps Final |
Thursday | 2.50 | Ryanair Chase |
Thursday | 3.30 | Stayers Hurdle |
Thursday | 4.10 | Brown Advisory Plate |
Friday | 1.30 | Triumph Hurdle |
Friday | 2.10 | County Hurdle |
Friday | 2.50 | Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle |
Friday | 3.30 | Cheltenham Gold Cup |
Friday | 4.10 | Foxhunters Chase |
If our selection wins at starting price (SP) odds of 3/1 or greater, Betfair will give us a free bet to the same value as our stake, up to a maximum of £25.00.
Just to clarify, if we back a horse at 3/1 and our selection wins at SP odds of 11/4 for example, we would not be eligible for a free bet.
Our first cash bet on each race will be our qualifying bet.
The back and lay odds will tighten as we get closer to each race starting. Having looked at the odds available for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, I’ve opted to place my qualifying bet on Bunk Off Early.
I like to place my exchange lay bets with Smarkets as they have great liquidity, the site is really easy to use and they only charge 2% commission, in comparison to the 5% charged by other betting exchanges. Remember, we pay 0% commission on the first race each day with Smarkets!
As you can see, the calculator tells us that our lay stake should be £25.34…
Place £25.00 on Bunk Off Early @ 7.50 = Potential profit of £162.50
Lay £25.34 on Bunk Off Early @ 7.40 = Potential liability of £162.17
Let’s have a look at our potential profit/loss for the possible outcomes…
Bunk Off Early wins | + £162.50 – £162.17 + £20.00 (extract 80% from £25.00 free bet) = £20.33 profit |
Bunk Off Early doesn’t win | – £25.00 + £25.34 (£25.34 minus 0% commission) = £0.34 profit |
So, if Bunk Off Early wins, we’ll make a nice profit of £20.33, otherwise we’ll have made a small qualifying profit of £0.34.
With 20 eligible races to look forward to, we should be looking at a potential profit of £100.00+ on this Betfair Cheltenham 2017 offer!
If eligible, free bets will be credited within 2 hours of our qualifying bet settling and will be valid for 48 hours. Free bet stakes are not included with any returns.
I’ll update the following table with my actual selections at the end of each day…
Race | Selection | Back Odds | Lay Odds | Profit |
---|---|---|---|---|
1.30 Tuesday | Bunk Off Early | 7.50 | 7.40 | + £0.34 |
3.30 Tuesday | Buveur D’air | 6.50 | 6.60 | + £19.18 |
4.10 Tuesday | Apple’s Jade | 5.00 | 5.10 | + £19.10 |
2.10 Wednesday | Acapella Bourgeois | 7.50 | 7.60 | – £0.76 |
4.10 Wednesday | Cause Of Causes | 5.00 | 5.20 | + £18.66 |
1.30 Thursday | Disko | 6.50 | 6.60 | – £0.38 |
3.30 Thursday | Cole Harden | 9.00 | 9.20 | – £0.99 |
4.10 Thursday | Starchitect | 8.50 | 8.80 | – £1.29 |
1.30 Friday | Charli Parcs | 5.00 | 5.30 | – £1.42 |
2.50 Friday | Augusta Kate | 8.00 | 8.20 | – £0.61 |
3.30 Friday | Sizing John | 9.00 | 8.80 | + £20.56 |
4.10 Friday | Wonderful Charm | 6.00 | 6.20 | – £0.81 |
* As you can see, I made an overall profit of £71.58 on this Betfair Cheltenham 2017 offer. *
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