04-03-2025
Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 – latest odds and betting news
There are no surprises at the head of the market for the 2025 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Galopin Des Champs is 8/15 favourite to return to the winner's enclosure on Friday week as only the fifth horse to complete a hat-trick of consecutive victories in the 101-year history of the race.
Jockey Paul Townend and trainer Willie Mullins are both chasing their fifth Gold Cup wins, which would be an outright record for a rider and a joint record for a handler. They have teamed up to win the race twice before with Al Boum Photo, who was third when bidding for his hat-trick bid in 2021.
In this article, we look at the market leaders and each-way shots for this year's Cheltenham Gold Cup, as well as some of the race trends that might help you to pick the winner.
Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 odds
Horse Odds Chance of victory
Galopin Des Champs 8/15 65.2%
Banbridge 6/1 14.3%
Fact to File 10/1 9.1%
Monty's Star 12/1 7.7%
Corbetts Cross 20/1 4.8%
Grangeclare West 25/1 3.8%
Grey Dawning 25/1 3.8%
Jungle Boogie 33/1 2.9%
L'Homme Presse 33/1 2.9%
Ahoy Senor 66/1 1.5%
Gentlemansgame 66/1 1.5%
Hewick 66/1 1.5%
The Real Whacker 66/1 1.5%
Royal Pagaille 100/1 1.0%
Conflated 150/1 0.7%
Each-way 1/5 odds 1-2-3.
Prices courtesy of bet365 and correct at time of writing.
Chance of victory as implied by bookmakers' odds.
Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 – Market leaders
Favourites have won four of the past five Gold Cups and the expectation is that statistic will become five out of six on Friday week. Galopin Des Champs is the 8/15 favourite at the time of writing and there is already a sense of deja vu about the nine-year-old's build-up to the big race.
Last season, Willie Mullins' charge was beaten into third in the Punchestown Chase in November, then recovered to win his next two Grade 1 assignments, the Savills Chase and Irish Gold Cup Chase at Leopardstown, before retaining the Gold Cup with a 3½-length victory at Cheltenham.
His path to Prestbury Park this in 2024-25 has been uncannily similar – third behind Fact or File at Punchestown before emphatically turning the tables on that rival twice at Leopardstown. It is hard to look beyond him joining Cottage Rake, Arkle and Best Mate as a three-time champion.
The Joseph O'Brien-trained Banbridge finished a distant fourth at Navan and unseated rider Richard Deegan in the Hilly Way Chase at Cork before lining up for the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day, but he landed that Grade 1 prize in impressive fashion and is 6/1 second favourite. At this stage it may be more likely that he lines up in the Ryanair Chase on Thursday, but if the going is looking officially 'good', then connections might take their chance at the bigger prize on Friday.
Fact to File (10/1) beat Galopin Des Champs over 2m 3½f at Punchestown but was put in his place in both rematches over 3m½f at Leopardstown. The 2m 4f Ryanair Chase is a likelier Festival target for the eight-year-old. Monty's Star (12/1) was second in the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase in 2024 but has too much to do to turn the tables after finishing fifth behind the favourite in the Irish Gold Cup.
Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 – Each-way shots
Five horses are currently priced between 20/1 and 33/1, offering value for each-way backers. Of these, Corbetts Cross (20/1) looks to have too much ground to make up on the evidence of his sixth behind Banbridge in the King George, but trainer Emmet Mullins will have him peaking for March, and the extra distance plus any substantial ease in the ground will sway the task in his favour.
Grangeclare West was second behind stablemate Galopin Des Champs in the Savills Chase but the 25/1 shot ran disappointingly at Navan last time out.
That leaves Grey Dawning (25/1) and the 33/1 shots Jungle Boogie and L'Homme Presse. Of these, the last may reward an each-way interest – providing he jumps soundly – after winning the Grade 2 Cotswold Chase over 3m 1½f at Cheltenham last month, finishing 10 lengths clear of Corbetts Cross.
Jungle Boogie is the biggest unknown and the least exposed runner, having raced only seven times despite being an 11-year-old. However, he is entered in all three Grade 1 open company chases so it is unclear what his target is at this stage.
Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 – Five pointers
If you're the kind of punter who swerves the form book in favour of trends, here are five statistics that may help you to decide which horse to back in the Gold Cup.
5 – Favourites who have won the Gold Cup in the past 10 years: Gordon Elliott's Don Cossack (2016), plus Willie Mullins' pair Al Boum Photo (2018 and 2019) and Galopin Des Champs (2023 and 2024).
4 – Number of Gold Cup victories for jockey Paul Townend. The 34-year-old Irishman has ridden in the race a dozen times and has also placed on five occasions.
3 – Horses aged 10 or over to win the Gold Cup in the past 35 years. They are the famous white horse Desert Orchid (1989), Cool Ground (1992) and Cool Dawn (1998).
2 – Number of non-Irish trainers to saddle a Gold Cup winner in the past decade: the late Mark Bradstock with Coneygree in 2015 and Colin Tizzard with Native River three years later.
1 – Rachael Blackmore remains the only woman to ride a Gold Cup winner and she is likely to be on board the 12/1 shot Monty's Star for trainer Henry De Bromhead.
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