Cheltenham Festival Race Times And Schedule For 2025

The 2025 Cheltenham Festival gets underway on Tuesday 11th March but there are several changes to the scheduling of the week, with the feature race now taking place at 4pm – half an hour later than in years gone by.

We’ve already started to put together a collecting of Cheltenham Festival antepost tips for Prestbury Park and we’ve not gone too long to wait before the Olympics of jumps racing.

Here, we look at the updated schedule for Cheltenham Festival week in 2025, with several tweaks to the order of races, a few Graded races have been switched to handicaps and the start time of races for March have been modified ever so slightly.

You can find the latest horse racing odds on Cheltenham and other major meetings at William Hill as we edge closer to this year’s meeting and all eyes will be on the Festival in that second week of March.

Tuesday, 11th March

• 13:20: Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ (Grade 1)
• 14:00: My Pension Expert Arkle Novices’ Chase (Grade 1)
• 14:40: Ultima Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap)
• 15:20: Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 16:00: Unibet Champion Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 16:40: Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle (Premier Handicap)
• 17:20: National Hunt Novices’ Chase

Wednesday, 12th March

• 13:20: Turners Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 14:00: Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase
• 14:40: Coral Cup Hurdle (Premier Handicap)
• 15:20: Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase
• 16:00: BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase (Grade 1)
• 16:40: Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Handicap Chase (Premier Handicap)
• 17.20: Weatherbys Champion Bumper

Thursday, 13th March

• 13:20: Ryanair Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 2)
• 14:00: Jack Richards Novices’ Handicap Chase
• 14:40: Pertemps Network Final (Premier Handicap)
• 15:20: Ryanair Chase (Grade 1)
• 16:00: Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 16:40: TrustATrader Plate (Premier Handicap)
• 17:20: Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup

Friday, 14th March

• 13:20: JCB Triumph Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 14:00: William Hill County Handicap Hurdle Race (Premier Handicap)
• 14:40: Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Chase (Grade 2)
• 15:20: Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1)
• 16:00: Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup (Grade 1)
• 16:40: St. James’s Place Festival Hunters Chase
• 17:20: Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle