Cartmel is a small racecourse located in the county of Cumbria, just south of the Lake District. It holds nine racedays throughout the year beginning at the end of May on the Whit Holiday all the way through to the August Bank Holiday.
Although relatively small, Cartmel has been known to draw in big crowds and in many years, is only beaten in attendance by Cheltenham and Aintree from all of the UK jumps courses.
Cartmel Betting Tips
Cartmel Racecourse only hosts around nine racing fixtures a year. However, when racing is taking place, you’ll find betting tips for Cartmel races on this page.
Not only do we provide free racing tips from our own racing expert, Will Smith, but we also list daily tips from some of the top newspaper racing analysts such as Newsboy, Rob Wright and others.
Racing tips are shared here on WhichBookie on a daily basis for races taking place across the UK, including Cartmel.
Cartmel Betting Tips Saturday
Many of Cartmel’s racing fixtures take place over bank holiday weekends. If you’re looking for tips for this Saturday’s races at Cartmel, visit this page on the day of the races. Tips are published by 9am and you’ll find Win, Each Way and occasionally, ante-post tips for racing at Cartmel. You may also find Cartmel tips in our daily EW Lucky 15’s which are shared from Will Smith each morning.
Cartmel Racecourse
The course at Cartmel is left-handed with some tight turns and oval in shape. It features six fences to be jumped which include an open ditch and water jump.
Cartmel has the longest run-in in British, measuring a distance of four furlongs which makes for some exciting finishes to races.
Cartmel Feature Races
Fixtures take place from the end of May through to the end of August each year at Cartmel with nine racedays currently scheduled.
The Grand Veterans’ Chase is the biggest event to take place at Cartmel. The race takes place on the Spring Bank Holiday which is the last Monday in May. It is run over three miles and six furlongs and is an extremely popular raceday given the time of year and generally sells out at a max capacity of 20,000
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There aren’t many racing fixtures throughout the year at Cartmel and so when they do come around, you want to make them count. That means getting the biggest prices for your bets and being able to take advantage of the selection of racing promotions that are available with some online bookies.
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Betting Tips For Cartmel
- Sharp, left-handed track with the longest run in in the country
- Racing in spring and summer attracting big crowds
- Charlotte Jones (20/64) for a 31% strike-rate a jockey to follow
- Sean Bowen/Peter Bowen (12/43) for a 28% strike-rate respected
- James Bowen respected on outsiders, 2/7 on horses priced at 14/1+ plus a 16/1 place.
- Ben Haslam respected with his outsiders, 3/11 at 14/1+ plus 3 places. Winners include a 66/1 chance.