Cheltenham Day 1 Tips: Tuesday's Racing Post selections

Day One of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival takes place on Tuesday and there are seven fantastic races to get stuck into at Prestbury Park.

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Cheltenham Day 1 Betting Tips and Odds

15:20 Cheltenham - Kala Conti @ 16/1
16:40 Cheltenham - Stencil @ 5/1
17:20 Cheltenham - Transmission @ 5/1

Mares' Hurdle Tip

15:20 Cheltenham - Kala Conti @ 16/1

Lossiemouth has been rerouted to the Mares' Hurdle after dodging the Champion Hurdle. That could be deemed a negative regarding her well-being, and I'd be keen to take her on at a short price after her nasty fall at the Dublin Racing Festival last time.

That's hardly the ideal preparation going into Cheltenham and perhaps Kala Conti, who has been kept fresh for this meeting, can serve up something of an upset.

Gordon Elliott had initially earmarked her for the Coral Cup off an appealing handicap mark, so it's interesting that he's decided to aim higher, and Kala Conti was among the best of a stellar group of four-year-old's last season.

She hasn't done much wrong this campaign and gives the impression she has plenty more to offer over intermediate distances.

Fred Winter Handicap Hurdle Tip

16:40 Cheltenham - Stencil @ 5/1

East India Dock heads the betting for the Triumph Hurdle on Friday and can have his form franked by Stencil in the Fred Winter.

This doesn't look like a vintage running, with the Irish challenge seeming to lack depth, and he may be a class apart from near the top of the weights.

Stencil produced an encouraging performance behind East India Dock in a Grade 2 on festival trials day on his sole start in Britain, pulling well clear of the third for a race run in an excellent time.

Hopes are high he can raise his game once more on this faster surface and his pedigree suggests as much. He is a son of Derby winner Masar and is expected to be tackling Grade 1 juveniles before long.

National Hunt Challenge Cup Handicap Chase Tip

17:20 Cheltenham - Transmission @ 5/1

The in-form Neil Mulholland used the Cleeve Hurdle as a springboard to festival glory for The Druids Nephew on this day in 2015 and Transmission, who has also taken that route, can follow suit in the National Hunt Chase.

Transmission has been campaigned solely at Cheltenham this term and shaped encouragingly on all three of his chase starts earlier in the campaign before protecting his chase mark in the Cleeve.

He has been hitting the line hard over shorter distances and should relish a greater test of stamina in this marathon under Patrick Mullins, who got an excellent tune out of him at the November meeting.

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