Make sure you read them through before placing your bets on Day 4 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival.
Steve Ryder has picked out his top 10 betting trends for Day 4 at Cheltenham. A reminder you can get a £5 free bet from the Triumph Hurdle on Ladbrokes, as well as a whole host of offers including 40/1 for Galopin Des Champs to win the Gold Cup.
Triumph Hurdle
- Four of the previous five winners were trained by Willie Mullins
- Nine of the previous 13 winners contested the Spring Juvenile Hurdle
- Nine of the previous 16 winners were unbeaten
- Nine of the previous 12 winners were trained in Ireland
Mares Chase
- All four previous renewals have been won by Irish trainers with the first two being trained by Willie Mullins, who has also provided the runner-up for the previous two seasons
- No winner so far being a bigger SP than 3/1
Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
- 18 of the previous 20 winners had won or placed in a Graded novice hurdle
- No winning favourite since 2013 with 10 of the previous 11 winners bigger than an SP of 10/1
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Gold Cup
- None of the previous 20 winners were aged older than nine
- It took Willie Mullins until 2019 to win this race as a trainer but he has now won it four out of the previous six years with Henry de Bromhead winning it twice in 2021 and 2022
