2025 Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Tips

Cheltenham Festival Day 4 Preview

It’s the final day of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and it’s also the biggest day of the Festival – with the Cheltenham Gold Cup spearheading a fantastic final day of racing action at the home of jumps racing. The previous three days’ racing has led up to the showpiece event on Friday and another unmissable afternoon awaits punters on Cheltenham Gold Cup day.

The action begins with the Grade One Triumph Hurdle and the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle brings down the curtain on Cheltenham day 4 races. As always, there will be plenty of drama throughout the day and the Racing Tips team will be on hand again to provide readers with expert Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 tips through the final day’s racecard at the ‘greatest show on turf’.

Cheltenham Day 4 Races 2025

Another collection of top class contests make up the Cheltenham day four races line-up with seven races starting at 1.30pm with the Grade One Triumph Hurdle. The action closes at 5.30pm with the Grade 3 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle. Last year Willie Mullins saddled an incredible five winners at accumulated odds of 1,518-1 and Rachael Blackmore rode A Plus Tard to a memorable Gold Cup victory.

TIME	RACE	DISTANCE
13:20	Triumph Hurdle Tips	2m 1f
14:00	Country Hurdle Tips	2m 1f
14:40	Mares’ Chase Tips	2m 4 1/2f
15:20	Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle Tips	3m
16:00	Cheltenham Gold Cup Tips	3m 2 1/2f
16:40	Hunters’ Chase Tips	3m 2 1/2f
17:20	Martin Pipe Hurdle Tips	2m 1/2f

For the final time of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival, the customary Cheltenham roar will ring out around Cheltenham as the leading juveniles set off in the Triumph Hurdle. This race is regarded as the launch pad for potential Champion Hurdlers but the last horse to win both races was 2007 winner Katchit. Willie Mullins has won it for the last three seasons courtesy of Vauban, Lossiemouth and Majborough.

We stay at two miles for the competitive County Hurdle next, won by subsequent Melbourne Cup fifth Absurde 12 months’ ago. The Mares’ Chase is the newest contest on the entire Cheltenham Festival programme, and is run as the third race on Friday’s card for the first time in 2025. The top novice-staying hurdlers head to post for race 4 now, the Albert Bartlett Hurdle over three miles.

The Albert Bartlett sets the scene for the big one – the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The showpiece event of Cheltenham day 4 will see a massive turnover in betting with Galopin Des Champs expected to carry the vast majority of it.

It is then the turn of the amateur riders to compete over the Cheltenham Gold Cup trip in the St James’s Place Challenge Cup otherwise known as the Foxhunter Chase. The conditional jockeys then take centre stage for the concluding Martin Pipe Hurdle which brings down the curtain on another fantastic Cheltenham Gold Cup afternoon.

Cheltenham Friday Feature Race

The last day of the Cheltenham Festival 2025 plays host to the biggest race of the entire Festival – the Cheltenham Gold Cup, rightly regarded as the Blue Riband event of steeplechasing. The Cheltenham day 4 showpiece features the top chasers from Great Britain and Ireland doing battle over three and a quarter miles.

Cheltenham Gold Cup Favourites

Galopin Des Champs heads the betting as the Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite as he aims to build on his Irish Gold Cup success. He was an expensive faller last year in the Turners Novices’ Chase but has hardly put a foot wrong since. 

Following A Plus Tard’s victory last year, five favourites in the Cheltenham Gold Cup betting have been successful in the past twelve seasons. The longest-priced winner since 2000 was 20/1 chance Lord Windermere in 2014 and only two of the last twelve winners have returned double-digits so those horses featuring towards the top of the betting tend to do best.

Cheltenham Free Bets For Friday

On such a high turnover betting day there’s sure to be plenty of Cheltenham Free bets for Friday on offer from most of the big names in the betting industry. New customers will be able to take advantage of a number of excellent free bet sign-up offers, while existing customers are likely to be able to take advantage of special free bets and bonuses.

The RacingTips team will be busy collecting and highlighting the best sign-up offers and free bets available throughout the afternoon as well as offering their expert Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025 tips.