The Gold Cup remains one of the highlights of the Cheltenham Festival, and this year’s renewal could shape up into a brilliant spectacle. Nine runners will go to post, with Galopin Des Champs a red-hot favourite to make history with a third win in the race.
The Willie Mullins-trained gelding has won the last two Gold Cups, and connections will be hoping that the nine-year-old can become only the fifth horse to ever land the spoils on three occasions and assert himself as a legend of the sport.
Galopin Des Champs has looked better than ever this season, winning his second Savills Chase before cruising to his third Irish Gold Cup. The gelding will take plenty of beating on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival, but this year’s meeting has thrown up plenty of surprises and there could be value elsewhere in the market.
Below, you can find our sweepstake kit so you can randomly draw a runner for the 3m2f chase. All you need to do is print our list of runners, cut them into slips and then throw those pieces of paper into a hat and have each pull out a runner to cheer on.
To avoid any mischief, and prevent more than one participant from claiming they have drawn Galopin Des Champs(!), the second page can then be used to write down who each participant drew.