The Prestbury Cup odds 2024 from the best UK horse racing bookmakers tell us that Ireland are set to dominate again – but just how many Irish Cheltenham Festival winners will there be this year and what is the betting?
Ireland Have Won (or tied) The Last EIGHT Prestbury Cups at the Cheltenham Festival
The Prestbury Cup provides Cheltenham Festival horse racing fans with an added sub-plot that runs over all four days of the meeting and is essentially a battle between the Irish and Great Britain trainers on who will have the most winners.
However, in recent times it’s been anything but a battle, with the Irish romping away with seven of the last eight with the only rot-stopper in 2019 when it was a 14-14 Prestbury Cup tie.
Last year we saw another 18 Irish Cheltenham winners, which was the same haul as 2022, but the GB yards were left with the most egg on their face in 2021 when Ireland fired in a massive 23 winners.
This meant, only FIVE, races that year didn’t go to an Irish trainer.
With Willie Mullins having another big army and a stack of the Cheltenham Festival bankers and favourites it’s hard to see anything but another Irish dominance.
Plus, if you add in the supporting Irish cast of Gordon Elliott, Henry De Bromhead and Gavin Cromwell, then it will be the biggest shock of the 2024 meeting if Ireland aren’t winning yet another Prestbury Cup.
Prestbury Cup Odds 2024 Sees Ireland Long Odds-On In The Betting
See below the latest Prestbury Cup odds 2024, where the best UK betting sites are taking no chances on another big Irish performance – making them as short as 1/10, and in a strange way even that looks value.
With 18 wins in 2023 and 2022 and a massive 23 in 2020, the last three years have not seen the GB trainers get close.
Meaning we’ve had a staggering 59 Irish-trained winners in the last three Festival, so from the 28 races (28 x 3 = 84), that works out at a monster 70% strike-rate.
At 10/1 for a GB shock, this means the bookies are even them only a 9.1% probabitity of winning their first Prestbury Cup since 2015.
While it’s 12/1 for the tie, (7.7%), which last happened in 2019 when we saw 14 wins each for GB and Ireland.
Prestbury Cup Betting
- Ireland 1/4
- Tie 12/1
- Great Britain 10/1
Prestbury Cup Handicap Betting
- Ireland Winners (-10.5) 11/10
- Great Britain Winners (+10.5) 4/6
Note: Odds are subject to change.
18 Irish Winners At The 2023 Cheltenham Festival
12 months ago in 2023, it was more of the same from the Emerald Isle stables, as we witnessed another Ireland stranglehold with 18 Cheltenham successes.
This equates to the Irish Cheltenham Festival winners in 2023 operating at a 64% strike-rate.
Of those 18 victories, these also including four of the five main races – Champion Chase, Ryanair Chase, Stayers’ Hurdle and Gold Cup (watch below).
- Marine Nationale (Supreme Novices)
- El Fabiolo (Arkle)
- Honeysuckle (Mares Hurdle)
- Jazzy Matty (Boodles)
- Gaillard Du Mesnil (NH Chase)
- Impaire Et Passe (Ballymore)
- Energumene (Champion Chase)
- Delta Work (Cross Country)
- Maskada (Grand Annual)
- A Dream To Share (Champion Bumper)
- Good Time Johnny (Pertemps)
- Envoi Allen (Ryanair Chase)
- Sire Du Berlais (Stayers’ Hurdle)
- Seddon (Plate)
- Angels Dawn (Kim Muir)
- Lossiemouth (Triumph)
- Galopin Des Champs (Gold Cup)
- Impervious (Mares’ Chase)
WATCH: The 18 Irish Winners at the 2023 Cheltenham Festival
The Irish Cheltenham winners in 2023 came from 15 different owners and nine seperate trainers.
Prestbury Cup Winners (since 2014)
- 2023 – Ireland (18 wins)
- 2022 – Ireland (18 wins)
- 2021 – Ireland (23 wins)
- 2020 – Ireland (17 wins)
- 2019 – Tie (14 wins each)
- 2018 – Ireland (17 wins)
- 2017 – Ireland (19 wins)
- 2016 – Ireland (15 wins)
- 2015 (27 races) – Great Britain (13 wins)
- 2014 (27 races) – Great Britain (12 wins)
Main Irish Cheltenham Festival Runners 2024
See below the bulk of the main Irish Cheltenham Festival 2024 runners. These 17 horses are mainly favourite or second favourite in the betting and will make up a large chunk of the Ireland winners again that are sure to see them winning the 2024 Prestbury Cup once more.
- Ballyburn (Supreme/Baring Bingham)
- Marine Nationale (Arkle)
- State Man (Champion Hurdle)
- Lossiemouth (Mares’ Hurdle)
- Embassy Gardens (NH Chase)
- Fact To File (Brown Advisory/Turners)
- El Fabiolo (Champion Chase)
- Minella Indo (Cross Country Chase)
- Delta Work (Cross Country Chase)
- Banbridge (Ryanair Chase)
- Envoi Allen (Ryanair Chase)
- Teahupoo (Stayers’ Hurdle)
- Irish Point (Stayers’ Hurdle)
- Brighterdaysahead (Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle)
- Jade De Grugy (Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle)
- Galopin Des Champs (Gold Cup)
- Dinoblue (Mares’ Chase)
Cheltenham Festival – Championship Races (UK vs Ireland)
See below a breakdown of the UK and Irish battle in the main Championship races – the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase, Stayers’ Hurdle and Gold Cup.
Champion Hurdle – 26 Year Trends
- 15/26 – Irish-trained winners
- 11/26 – British-trained winners
- Willie Mullins (Ire) has trained 4 of the last 13 winners
- Nicky Henderson (UK) has trained 6 of the last 15 winners
Champion Chase – 26 Year Trends
- 17/26 – British-trained winners
- 9/26 – Irish-trained winners
- Willie Mullins (Ire) trained his first winners of the race in 2022 and 2023
- Nicky Henderson (UK) has trained 5 of the last 12 winners (won the race 6 times in total)
- Paul Nicholls (UK) has trained 6 of the last 24 winners
- Henry de Bromhead (Ire) has trained 3 of the last 13 winners
- Jessica Harrington (Ire) has trained 2 of the last 21 winners
Stayers’ Hurdle – 26 Year Trends
- 18/26 – British-trained winners
- 6/26 – Irish-trained winners
- 2/26 – French-trained winners
- Willie Mullins (Ire) has trained just two recent winners of the race (2018, Penhill, 2017, Nichols Canyon)
- Gordon Elliott (Ire) trained his first winner of the race in 2023 (Sire Du Berlais)
- Nicky Henderson (UK) has trained just 1 winner of the race (2000, Bacchanal)
- Paul Nicholls (UK) has trained 4 of the last 15 winners
- Jonjo O’Neill (UK) has trained 2 of the last 20 winners
- Flooring Porter (Ire) has won 2 of the last 3 runnings (Gavin Cromwell)
Cheltenham Gold Cup – 26 Year Trends
- 16/26 – British-trained winners
- 10/26 – Irish-trained winners (6 of last 8)
- Henry de Bromhead (Ire) has trained 2 of the last 3 winners
- Willie Mullins (Ire) has trained 3 of the last 5 winners (2023, 2020, 2019)
- Nicky Henderson (UK) has trained 2 of the last 13 winners
- Paul Nicholls (UK) has trained 3 of the last 17 winners (5 in total)
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