Cheltenham Festival 2025: We’ve listened to your feedback and invested in a number of key enhancements to improve the overall Customer Experience at The Festival across the areas that matter to you most.

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Cheltenham Festival


11 - 14 March 2025

The pinnacle event of the jump-racing calendar

Cheltenham Festival 2025 is the pinnacle event of the jump-racing calendar. Guaranteed excellence, whether you join on Champion Day on Tuesday, Style Wednesday, St Patrick’s Day on Thursday or Gold Cup Day on Friday. Each day offers a unique twist on four days of extraordinary.


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Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 March 2025.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the one they all long to win, many times over, above all others. Every horse, jockey, trainer, breeder, owner and fan worth their weight in gold is here. Greats become legends. Legends rewrite history. Four breath taking days, 28 races at stake. Unrelenting prestige, competition, and excitement.

Galopin Des Champs and Paul Townend became legends again. Cheltenham Festival 2024 was simply unmissable, always extraordinary.

The Cheltenham roar, the extraordinary racing and the priceless moments. The countdown to Cheltenham 2025 begins!

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What's new for 2025

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We’ve listened to your feedback and invested in a number of key enhancements to improve the overall Customer Experience at The Festival across the areas that matter to you most.

Our goal is to ensure that your visit to the Cheltenham Festival not only meets, but exceeds your expectations; because at its best, nothing feels like Cheltenham.

There are three main areas of practical changes, designed to improve every stage of your time with us.

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Our Enclosures

Club Enclosure

There's no better way to enjoy the day at Cheltenham than from the Club Enclosure, our most premier enclosure. It's an experience to remember with access to all public areas and spectacular views from the main grandstand, lawn or Winning Post. In addition to paddock viewing access, you can enjoy the Hall of Fame, all the public areas of the Princess Royal Stand.

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Tattersalls Enclosure

The perfect middle ground between the Club and Best Mate Enclosure. Be close up to the Winner's Enclosure, stand by the Winning Post and get stunning views from the Tattersalls grandstand viewing steps.

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Best Mate Enclosure

Best Mate is the most affordable way to enjoy what racing at Cheltenham has to offer and is tremendous value for money, you'll experience excellent views of the racing and top-class betting facilities, bars and a variety of food choices.

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Fashion, Style & Live Music

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The Slow Fashion Awards

Style Wednesday is a celebration of the glamour and glory of the Cheltenham Festival, the most prestigious jump racing festival is the epitome of timeless glamour, from the excitement of the winners to the stunning fashion on display.

To honor and celebrate these wonderful traditions and make new traditions we present the Style Wednesday Slow Fashion Awards.

The Slow Fashion awards celebrate vintage and borrowed items, as well as investment pieces that can be passed down through generations.

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Cheltenham Festival Style

Whilst The Jockey Club has no formal dress code in place, we appreciate many do like to dress up for the Festival. Draw inspiration from our Style Guides here.

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Plan Your Day

Travel & Parking

We want to ensure that getting to Cheltenham Racecourse is made as easy as possible. Book your coach journey with National Express or your plan your bus journey from Cheltenham Spa station.

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Plan Your Day

Plan your visit to Cheltenham Festival, from the Shopping Village, to live music, to discounts on group bookings. 

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Race Schedule

4 Days and 28 Races not to be missed.

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Festival FAQs

Our postcode is GL50 4SH for use with GPS equipment. However on a raceday customers are strongly advised to follow the yellow, temporary signs when entering Cheltenham and the local area and not the brown permanent signs.

 

Please check the event schedule for the most up to date timings.

 

Please note that these times are subject to change.

All racegoers intending to park on-site during Cheltenham Festival will require a car parking pass. The parking passes are no longer available to purchase online.

There is no set dress code for Cheltenham Festival but we ask customers to dress for the weather, take some inspiration from our Style Guide on our dress code page.

 

Cookie Policy

We use “cookies” to help enhance your experience and improve the functionality of our website. You can find out more in our cookie policy. We also serve cookies, some with chocolate chips, on our racecourses.

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