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To join the pantheon of steeplechasing greats, Galopin Des Champs simply has to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2025. He’s done it twice before and scared off much opposition away from the Festival blue riband this year. Plenty points to Galopin Des Champs enjoying a fourth win at this major meeting. A third Irish …

  As the best jumps horse racing fixture on the planet moves into St Patrick’s Thursday, we have the biggest Cheltenham trends for day 3 you need to know for the Festival. Following these stats can help you narrow down the fields and find the best horse profiles based on past winners of each of …

The talking heads on the Cheltenham Festival preview circuit have been pretty lukewarm about firm favourite Teahpuoo in the Stayers Hurdle of 2025 despite him winning the race comfortably 12 months ago. Lightly campaigned and trained to peak in the spring by Gordon Elliott, what’s not to like? Not for him the winter slogs of …

Two Cheltenham Festival winners from last year run in the Ryanair Chase of 2025 with the pair among four horses with joint-top rating of 166. Far from being an easy alternative to the Gold Cup, this could actually turn out to be the steeplechase of the meeting. More than half of the nine runners have …

After consecutive years of Irish winners, the Triumph Hurdle of 2025 may go to the home team if the betting has it right. At the top of the market for the four-year-olds only Grade 1 at Cheltenham on Friday, 14 March are two British hopefuls. East India Dock is the latest in a string of …

All seven runners in the Brown Advisory Novices Chase of 2025 at the Cheltenham Festival are Irish raiders. Such an approach from the home team hurts their hopes of wresting the Prestbury Cup back from the Emerald Isle. What has most trainers on side of the Irish Sea running scared, however, is the presence of …

  We are back with more horse racing stats and Cheltenham trends on day 2 of the Festival. You can use these statistics to thin out the fields when the final runners are out, so put history on your side. How To Use The Cheltenham Trends for Day 2 of the Festival It goes without …

If last year’s edition was a coronation for Ballyburn, the Turners Novices Hurdle of 2025 (registered as the Baring Bingham) could hardly be more different. There are four Grade 1 winners in the line-up where Willie Mullins runs six in the opener on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. Changing sponsors so often isn’t doing …