THE CHELTENHAM Gold Cup chase is the most anticipated race of the entire festival.
Winners stand to take home a staggering amount of money, if they can overcome the competition’s gruelling track.
The Gold Cup Race
The Gold Cup chase is the biggest race at Cheltenham, despite beginning as a supporting race for the Country Hurdle.
Cheltenham has been the site of the competition since 1861, though it has occasionally been held in other locations.
The 2025 race is being held on March 14 at 4pm and the winner will take home an eye-watering prize.
Racers will need to jump over 22 hurdles across three miles and two furlongs.
What is the Gold Cup prize money?
The total prize fund for the race is £646,880.
With a staggering £363,999 is given to owner of the winning horse
Second place receives £137,138, third £68,633, fourth £34,284, fifth £17,207, sixth £86,03, seventh £42,69 and eighth £21,999.
Honouring Michael O’Sullivan at Cheltenham
The Cheltenham Festival 2025 had a race dedicated to the late Irish jockey Michael O’Sullivan.
Michael won the day one double at Cheltenham 2023 and became the Irish Champion conditional jockey that same year.
Sadly, he passed away on February 16, 2025, after falling from his horse ten days earlier.
His death shocked the racing community, with even Queen Camilla comforting Michael’s girlfriend Charlotte Giles at the 2025 competition.
All of the winners at the Cheltenham Festival 2025
The Cheltenham Festival 2025 has been a thrilling competition.
Here’s the winner of every race so far:
Day Three
- The Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup – Daily Present
- The TrustATrader Plate Handicap Chase – Jagwar
- The Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle – Bob Olinger
- The Ryanair Steeple Chase – Fact to File
- The Pertemps Network Final – Doddiethegreat
- The Jack Richards Novices’ Limited Handicap Chase – Cadwell Potter
- The Ryanair Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle – Air of Entitlement
Day Two
- The Weatherbys Champion Bumper – Bambino Fever
- The Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Handicap Steeple Chase Challenge Cup – Jazzy Matty
- The BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase – Marine Nationale
- The Glenfarclas Cross Country Steeple Chase – Stumptown
- The Coral Cup Hurdle – Jimmy Du Seuil
- The Brown Advisory Novices’ Steeple Chase – Lecky Watson
- The Turners Novices’ Hurdle Race – The New Lion
Day One
- Princess Royal National Hunt Challenge Cup Novices’ Handicap Chase – Haiti Couleurs
- Hallgarten and Novum Wines Juvenile Handicap Hurdle – Puturhandstogether
- The Unibet Champion Hurdle – Golden Ace
- The Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle Race – Lossiemouth
- The Ultima Handicap Chase – Myretown
- The My Pension Expert Arkle Novices’ Chase – Jango Baie
- The Michael O’Sullivan Supreme Novices’ Hurdle – Kopek Des Bordes
