Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Cheltenham Festival 2026 Betting: Day One

It's Cheltenham Festival week, so - as per usual - I plan to place bets on each race and share my picks and results here on the blog.

With all that said, I've decided to go in a different direction this year. I haven't bought, nor read, any of the Cheltenham Festival guides I check out in the days and weeks before the meeting. 

The new direction, for at least this year (depending on how it goes!), is to run with results from a simulation I ran with Microsoft Copilot.

I gave the AI program the information for all of today's races. It ran each horse against each other and it came away with its own order. To be frank, I was unhappy with some of its predictions. I sensed it was simply running the order by their odds. 

So, to shake things up, I requested Copilot to select one horse from each race 'using a mixture of value and sensible plays'.

Here's what it came up with:

Cheltenham Festival 2026 - Day One Picks

I dislike a few of these. The one I am not keen on whatsoever is 'The Mighty Celt' to win the Juvenile Handicap Hurdle. However, all of these bets are each-way, so - at 18/1 - I would  consider myself fortunate if the horse places.

All seven horses have been placed in an each-way Super Heinz.

Results


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