Cheltenham Day 3 Tips: Thursday's Tips For 2025 Festival

The third day of the Cheltenham Festival is Stayers Hurdle day. With plenty of betting potential throughout the course of the day, you’ll find all our Cheltenham Day 3 tips on this page. With another 7 races during the day, there is certainly a lot of horses to choose between.

We’ve done just that by breaking down each race and giving you our top picks for each day along with our reasons for why we are backed each horse during day 3. To do this we take a close look at the form of the horse, jockey and trainer to give you an informed opinion of each of our selections.

Click on any of the race names below to see our Stats & Trends page, including tip for the race

Mares' Novices' Hurdle - 1.20pm

First introduced to the Festival in 2016, this has been a more competitive contest in recent years.

Jack Richards Novices' Limited Handicap Chase - 2.00pm

Officially registered as the Golden Miller (the most successful Gold Cup horse ever), this novices chase over 2 and a half miles is always a competitive contest.

Pertemps Network Final - 2.40pm

The final of the series of staying handicap hurdles is one of the most competitive races at the festival. Our tips will help you choose a bright spark in this closely fought race.

Ryanair Chase - 3.20pm

One of the highlights of day 3, the Ryanair Chase is sure to be one of the most exciting races on not only the day, but the week as a whole.

Stayers Hurdle - 4.00pm

This is the main Championship race of the day - twelve hurdles and three miles of Cheltenham's undulating New Course stand between each runner and Cheltenham immortality.

TrustATrader Plate Handicap Chase - 4.40pm

Run over a length of two and a half miles, the Festival Plate is sure to go down to the last. Regularly won by horses well into the double figure odds bracket, it provides an excellent opportunity for punters to land a big price winner.

Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup - 5.20pm

The final race of the card of day 3. This race is just for amateur riders and is run over a distance of three miles and two furlongs.

Day 3 at Cheltenham Festival features the stayers hurdle as the main championship race of the day. With a distance of about 3 miles and 12 hurdles to be jumped, there is plenty of opportunity for any horse to win this one. We’ve put together our Stayers Hurdle tips to ensure you’ve got a clear idea of which horse could win this Grade 1 national hurdle race.

As mentioned before with a field of up to 20 entries there are a lot of different horses to monitor on the lead up to the festival. Our team will do this for you during the lead up to the festival and this will help formulate our Cheltenham Day 3 tips. We take into account the latest form of everyone involved in the race whether it be the horse, trainer or the jockey.

Although the festival is now in full swing there is still plenty of scope to acquire some free bets to use with our tips for Day 3. There are many different free bet offers available for the Cheltenham festival, all you need to do to get them is head over to our free bets page and see what's currently being offered.

The tips on this page can be used to qualify for all of the different offers. We’d recommend betting on the first race of the day using your qualifying bet. You’ll then be able to use your free bets or bonus credits on the other races throughout the day. Alternatively, you could use them on one of our tips for the final day of the festival, see our tips here:

• Cheltenham Festival Day 1 Tips
• Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Tips
• Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Tips

If you’re looking for advice on where to use our bets then we’d recommend that you take a look at our main site. There you’ll find an array of different multiples bets available during the festival. They can be found on these pages on our site:

• 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