Cheltenham Day 1 Tips: Tuesday's Tips For the 2025 Festival

Here you’ll find all of our tips for Day 1 of the Cheltenham Festival. Our team has been watching the form of all of the horses that are racing in the 7 races on Tuesday. This has helped us to formulate our Cheltenham tips for Tuesday's races.

Our tips for each race give you our picks and reasoning for choosing each horse on the first day. We take into account the recent form of the jockey, trainer and horse itself as well as other things such as value offered and weather conditions to bring you our best Cheltenham day one 1 tips.

Day 1 is now over.

Click here to see our tips for Day 4 - Friday 14th March

The main feature race of day 1 at Cheltenham is the Champion Hurdle. This Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race takes place at 13:30 on day 1 meaning it is the middle race with three before it and three races after. With it being such a big race in the calendar everyone is looking to land a winner for it. That’s why we’ll be providing our Champion Hurdle Tips on this page along with the rest of our Cheltenham day 1 tips.

Our team has been constantly watching the form of the horses that will be taking part in day 1’s racing during the run-up to the festival. This has given us a clear idea of which horses are in form, which are looking competitive and which horses may be priced well. We have then used this knowledge to bring you our top day 1 Cheltenham Festival Tips giving you the best chance at securing a winning bet on the first day of the festival.

The opening day of the Cheltenham Festival is by far one of the best days to unlock your free bets. The reason for this is that you are able to get access to your free bets early with some of the different bookmakers. This means the free bets that you accumulated on day one of the Cheltenham Festival will be available for use on each of the other festival days.

You can use the tips on this page to help you select your bets for day one. If you’re looking for tips for what to use your bets on for the rest of the festival then check out our tips pages for the rest of the days:

• Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Tips
• Cheltenham Festival Day 3 Tips
• Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Tips

Sometimes selecting a singles bet just won't cut it, especially if it’s a short-priced favourite. Our team also offers other multiples bets using these Cheltenham Day one tips. These can be found on our main site on these pages:

• Win Treble Tips
• Lucky 15 Tips
• Place Longshot Tips
• #Priceitup Tips
• Request-a-bet Tips
• ITV 7 Tips

Other specific tips available on our main site:

• NAP of the Day
• Each Way Tips
• Dark Horse Tips
• Late Tips

If you’re looking to place a bet on our Cheltenham day 1 tips then it may be beneficial to see all of the odds for the day in one place. By heading over to our Cheltenham odds page and selecting a race from day one you’ll be presented with a live odds grid displaying all of the competing odds from the UK’s top bookmakers.