Supreme Novices Hurdle Trends - Cheltenham Festival 2026

03/03/2026

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The Cheltenham roar is the cacophony of noise made by the thousands of racing fans in the grandstands when the starter raises the tape for the first race of the festival.

This race on the opening Tuesday is of course the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, a Grade 1 race that runs on the Old Course over 2 miles and 1/2 furlong.

So which horses will you be roaring home in the Supreme this year? Let’s take a look at the state of play in the current ante-post market if you fancy a bet on Cheltenham now.

*Credit for the photos in this article belongs to Alamy*

By Steve Mullington

Steven is a sports and horse racing enthusiast and is a member of the Horseracing Writers and Photographers Association (HWPA) in the United Kingdom.

He is a regular visitor to Paris Longchamp for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and a lifelong fan of the Aintree Grand National, a subject he writes about 52 weeks of the year. Last year he reached the impressive milestone of attending the last 30 renewals of the Grand National.

Steven graduated from the University Of Lancaster in 1996 with a B.A (Hons) in Urban Policy & Race Relations (major) with Contemporary Religions & Belief Systems (minor) and still wonders if any of these help him find the winners?

He writes for a number of websites and online publications and you can sometimes hear him at the weekend discussing racing on a number of local radio stations.

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