{"id":16732,"date":"2024-03-12T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T11:49:03","slug":"bookies-predict-over-1-billion-to-be-wagered-on-the-2024-cheltenham-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/cheltenham-total-bets-guinness-drank-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookies Predict Over \u00a31Billion To Be Wagered On The 2024 Cheltenham Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheltenham Festival is one of the biggest and most exciting horse racing events across the world. This year, the bookmaking industry is expecting to see Cheltenham Festival betting exceed \u00a31Billion over the four-day meeting.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bookies going \u2018Evs\u2019 on over \u00a31bn staked\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Layers predicting 210,000 pints of Guinness drunk<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17,500+ champagne corks to pop at 10\/11\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheltenham Festival is celebrating its 100th year in 2024 &#8211; and currently attracts over 65,000 people per day. The record currently stands at 280,627 in 2022 across the four days. Even though there are some reports of ticket sales being slightly down, the Prestbury Park course is still going to be packed to the rafters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also billed as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Horse Racing\u2019s Olympics\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or by some in recent years as the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018Willie Mullins Show\u2019, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheltenham Festival is not only notorious for its 28 races. But also the extras that come with it &#8211; from the alcohol consumed and the volume of bets wagered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this in mind, we\u2019ve taken a look at these well-publicised subplots at the Festival and compiled a list of odds for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much will be bet? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many pints of Guinness will be drunk? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many bottles of champagne will be popped?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head of News Lee Astley said:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cWith the cost of living crisis taking a firm grip on so many Brits, our traders think the projected numbers on all fronts will take a hit. Our traders reckon there will be just shy of a billion GBP staked on the festival, around 210,000 pints of the black stuff consumed and around 17,500 champagne corks popped at the festival. It&#8217;s a highly unlikely scenario but if all favourites were to win at the festival, our traders estimate a catastrophic hit of over \u00a3500m to bookies.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16744\" title=\"cheltenham1\" src=\"https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cheltenham1-300x214.jpeg\" alt=\"cheltenham1\" width=\"829\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cheltenham1-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cheltenham1-768x549.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cheltenham1.jpeg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/>\n<h2><strong>Cheltenham Festival betting: How Much Will Be Wagered?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4\/5: Over \u00a31bn staked\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EVS: Under \u00a31bn staked<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to its ever-growing popularity, Cheltenham Festival betting could easily exceed \u00a31bn this year &#8211; with both online and on course betting predicted to be up on last year. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How Many Pints Of Guinness Will Be Drunk?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/11: Over 210,000\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/11: Under 210,000\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheltenham Festival and a pint of Guinness go hand-in-hand. The good news for racegoers is that the track still have their 2022 price-freeze on a pint of the \u2018black stuff &#8211; which sits at \u00a37.50.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is, of course, the famous Guinness Village at the course too, plus this year the track has also built a pub &#8211; called \u2018The Mandarin\u2019 and named after the 1962 Gold Cup winner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, everything is in place again for Guinness drinking records to be smashed &#8211; but just how many pints will be sunk?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 220,000 pints are expected to be drunk at the 2024 Festival. So after a quick calculation at \u00a37.50 a pint, this means \u00a31.65m will also be spent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How Many Bottles Of Champagne Will Be Drunk?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/11: Over 17,500\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10\/11: Under 17,500\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guinness is not the only popular drink during the Cheltenham Festival, as visitors also enjoy making the most out of their time with a glass (or bottle) of champagne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reports say that during the festival, we could see as much as 20,000 bottles of fizz consumed by racing fans &#8211; averaging around 5,000 per day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the spread with the odds compilers here sits at over or under 17,500 champagne bottles &#8211; both at 10\/11.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Explore <a href=\"https:\/\/instantcasinos.com\/\">Instant Withdrawal Casinos<\/a> for the fastest payouts in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheltenham Festival is one of the biggest and most exciting horse racing events across the world. This year, the bookmaking industry is expecting to see Cheltenham Festival betting exceed \u00a31Billion over the four-day meeting.\u00a0 Bookies going \u2018Evs\u2019 on over \u00a31bn staked\u00a0\u00a0 Layers predicting 210,000 pints of Guinness drunk 17,500+ champagne corks to pop at 10\/11\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cheltenham Festival betting: Over \u00a31bn expected to be wagered<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cheltenham Festival betting: 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