Festival Plate Odds, Tips, Free Bets & Betting Offers

Updated: April 17, 2025 at 2:56 pm GMT+1
Fact Checked by Craig Jones

Better known by its former title, the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup, this two-mile four-and-a-half-furlong race is a valuable handicap chase with ยฃ120,000 prize money.

The Festival Plate is always a hotly contested race, with some big-priced winners in recent years, showing the kind of test that punters face here trying to find the winner.

Read on for Festival Plate betting odds, tips, and Cheltenham free bets for the 2025 race.


Race Details
When:Thursday, March 13th - 4:40pm
Winnerโ€™s Prize:ยฃ67,524
Distance:Two-miles & four-furlongs
Race Type:Grade 3 Chase
Age:5-Years+
Course:New Course
Weights:Handicap
Where to Watch?ITV Racing, Racing TV, Bookmaker Streams

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This race comes towards the end of day three at the Cheltenham Festival and below we've got some great free bets that are still available to use at the meeting.

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Festival Plate Betting Odds

As we stand now, just three runners are single figures with betting sites as the rest are all available at double figures, or more, such is the competitive nature of this field.

Jagwar leads the way, Springwell Bay is the second favourite, and both have been talked up quite a lot over the past week or so at various preview evenings.


Festival Plate Tips

A tough puzzle for punters to solve, but the Festival Plate is in our Cheltenham day 3 tips with Paddy Brennan giving us an each way selection.

Paddy Brennan - Masaccio (Each-Way)

Jagwar has a great chance, but the horse I like in this is MASACCIO (Each-Way) for Alan King and Tom Cannon.

He's got form on the track behind Jagwar on Trials Day, and I think on slightly better ground in a fast run race he looks overpriced,

This has been a plan for a while, and he's got a hell of an engine, and I think it really suits him when he has a break between his races.

He'll be fresh and well and has a big chance.


What Happened Last Year?

In 2024, Shakem Up'Arry was the winner of the plate for trainer Ben Pauling, beating a very competitive field to grab a festival win.


Festival Plate Key Stats

  • Just five of the last 13 winners of this race have been from Ireland
  • 11 of the last 12 winners had at least one win over hurdles
  • 10 of the last 12 winners had at least three runs that season

Previous Winners of the Festival Plate

Check out the last five winners of the Festival Plate in the table below.

YearWinner
2024Shakem Up'Arry
2023Seddon
2022Coole Cody
2021The Shunter
2020Simply The Betts

FAQs

When is the Festival Plate?

The Festival Plate is the sixth race on Day 3 of the Cheltenham Festival - this year, on Thursday, March 13th.

What distance is the Festival Plate run over?

The Festival Plate is run over a distance of about 2 miles and 4ยฝ furlongs, with 17 fences jumped.

Who is the most successful trainer in the Festival Plate?

The most successful trainer of current times is Nicky Henderson, who has trained the winner of the Festival Plate on four occasions.


More Cheltenham Tips

Check out our tips for all the other Cheltenham Day 3 races:

Turners Novices' Chase
Pertemps Network Final
Ryanair Chase
Stayers Hurdle
Festival Plate
Mares' Novices' Hurdle
Kim Muir Handicap Chase

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Scott is an experienced betting content writer supplying content to major bookmakers and several sports betting websites. His passions are horse racing and Scottish football, and heโ€™s a regular attendee at racetracks at home and abroad.

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