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Cashing out your Cheltenham Festival accumulators
The Cheltenham Festival is always a great opportunity to place a few accumulators, whether they are ante-post or on the day of the race.
Maybe you fancy an ante-post on the headline races of each day, such as the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup. Or you could decide to place an accumulator on all the races which are live on terrestrial television to help keep the excitement levels going through the afternoon.
You may also have a favourite jockey who you consistently back and hope will one day emulate the achievements of Frankie Dettori by going through the card.
It’s certainly possible that could happen, but such occurrences are rare and picking the winner of every race at such a competitive event as the Cheltenham Festival is going to take something not far short of a miracle.
Yet, what if you do have one of those days when the first five or six selections in the accumulator have won? Everything now rests on the final race of the day for you to claim a big jackpot and have a tale to tell for the rest of your life. However, disaster strikes and you endure the agony of your horse being beaten in a photo, like On His Own in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last season, or seeing it fall when in contention.
To avoid such a heart-breaking scenario, you should use an exchange betting app of the likes of betfair which allows you to cash out your horse racing multiples in between races.
It’s a feature which just requires one click of the button and means you can still guarantee yourself a handsome profit on your bets, irrespective of what happens afterwards.
You can cash out at any time as well, from after the first race up to before the last race.
You just have to decide how long you can hold your nerve and whether telling the story of how close you came to a historic accumulator is worth more than the money in your account from getting the first four legs up.