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• Each-Way Betting at Cheltenham: Place Terms, Extra Places and the Arithmetic — The standard place-terms scale, the Festival races where bookmakers add places, worked examples with every step of the sum shown, when each-way is and is not sensible, and the Rule 4 deduction table.
• Cheltenham Festival Glossary: 40 Betting and Racing Terms Explained — From ante-post to the Cheltenham roar — the racing and betting vocabulary you will meet on this site and in Festival coverage, defined in one or two plain sentences each.
• Terms of Use — Draft — review by a solicitor before launch. The terms on which this site is provided: information not advice, 18+, accuracy and its limits, third-party links, intellectual property and liability.
• The Going at Cheltenham Explained: The Scale, the Two Courses and How to Read Race-Week Changes — The official going scale, what combined descriptions like "Soft, Heavy in places" mean, how the Old and New Courses differ, why March at Cheltenham is more often soft than not, and a checklist for reading going changes in Festival week.
• The Prestbury Cup Explained: What It Is, How It Is Scored and Why Ireland Keeps Winning — The Ireland-versus-Britain scoreboard that runs through Festival week — how it is counted, the 2022–2026 results, the 2026 last-race arithmetic, and the reasons for Irish dominance that our data can actually support.
• How Our Tips Work — Every tip is published with the price at the time, timestamped, settled from official results and kept forever — winners and losers alike. This page explains the record and how to read it.
• How We Rate Bookmakers — The published criteria and weights behind every bookmaker rating on this site — licensing first, then place terms, price competitiveness, concessions, market depth, payouts and safer-gambling tools — applied identically whether or not we earn commission.