The Cheltenham Festival is beginning to come firmly into view and Telegraph Sport is here to help you sharpen up your punting portfolios ahead of the most exciting four days in jump racing.
The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the most prestigious race of the British and Irish jump racing season and the centrepiece of the Cheltenham Festival.
The Cheltenham Festival is the pinnacle of jump racing, bringing together the very best horses from Britain, Ireland and France for four days of unparalleled action and drama.
Galopin Des Champs may have taken a significant step towards steeplechasing greatness by winning a third Irish Gold Cup on Saturday – a three-peat matched by State Man in Sunday’s dramatic but ultimately uninformative Irish Champion Hurdle – but if a star was born at this year’s Dublin Racing Festival it was their stablemate Kopek Des Bordes.
