These days, the entire horse racing calendar revolves around four days in March for many. The greatest show on turf, the Cheltenham Festival, is the pinnacle of jumps racing and is long anticipated from the moment the prior Festival ends. Ante-post bets are placed up to a year in advance, and a mass of preview evenings has created a budding circuit to talk all things Cheltenham. Whether an experienced punter, or just a racing enthusiast, the idea of a Festival ‘banker’ is highly sought after each and every year. Compile a number of these bankers together across the four days,...

The dust has now settled on a magical week at Royal Ascot, a week that told wonderful stories from a winner for the King to one last Gold Cup for Frankie, it truly was a real spectacle to behold. It also proved to be a fantastic weekend for the bettrends team, and we take this time to review the week we enjoyed as we look forward to the Newmarket July Festival next week. It was a brutal start to the week in the curtain raiser, the Queen Anne, with our confident selection Inspiral looking a likely winner but going down...

After a terrific National Hunt Season has gone by, in which all standalone points-based services returned a profit (including a whopping +27.23pts profit for our Festive Service!), we have arrived at our first standalone service for the 2023 Flat Season in the form of the bettrends Derby Service. A historic two days of racing in the British calendar which features two classics, the Oaks and the Derby, this service has historically been one of our best here at bettrends. We have been finding the winners in the marquee races since all the way back in 2019 with Defoe (advised 16/1...

#1 INTELLOTTO, Joseph Patrick O'Brien  El Fabiolo and Impaire et Passe ensured that Simon Munir and Isaac Souede enjoyed a successful Cheltenham Festival in March and whilst the leading owners still have plenty to look forward to during the concluding weeks of the National Hunt season, they have a nice prospect for the upcoming Flat campaign, in the shape of Intellotto. Having reportedly misbehaved in the stalls beforehand, the son of Lope de Vega ran creditably behind a subsequent Group 3 winner on debut at the Curragh – where he faded late on, having raced prominently – and appreciated the longer trip,...

So now the curtain has dropped on the Greatest Show On Turf for yet another year, and we have had a few weeks to properly digest the action, it’s time to review the Festival and the bettrends Cheltenham Festival Service as we move towards the Aintree Festival. The bettrends Cheltenham Festival Service applied the tried and tested trends to each and every field of the 28 races across the week so you didn’t have to, accompanied by expert analysis and our shortlist. The team enjoyed a fruitful week, with the service pointing towards TEN winners throughout the week as well...