Cheltenham Gold Cup 2025/2026
Join us for the unforgettable spectacle, atmosphere and excitement of the Cheltenham Festival on a spectacular break with us. Revel in the anticipation and drama in sport’s natural amphitheatre, experience the spine-tingling roar of the crowd and cheer on your horse as they thunder up the famous hill towards the finishing post!
Held on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival every March, this unmissable race is the most prestigious at the Festival and a massive highlight of the National Hunt Season. Check out some fun facts about the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and Festival, below.
Cheltenham Gold Cup Coach Tours
Overnight stay at a selected 3 or 4-star hotel with dinner & breakfast
2-day race ticket with admission to the Best Mate Enclosure on Thursday and Friday, with coach transfer
Departures: March
3 nights at the 4-star Ramada Birmingham Solihull Hotel with dinner & breakfast
2-day race ticket with admission to the Best Mate Enclosure on Thursday and Friday, with coach transfer
Departures: March
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Fun Facts
A prize of £685 went to the owner of Red Splash, the first winner of the Gold Cup as we now know it, in 1924. The prize money for the 2022 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner was £351,687.50, making it the most valuable jumps race in Britain and Ireland after the Grand National.
Golden Miller, owned by the wealthy eccentric Dorothy Paget, won the first of an astonishing five successive Gold Cups, under four different jockeys. He remains the only horse ever to have won both the Gold Cup and the Grand National in the same year (1934).
Willie Mullins has trained more Cheltenham Festival winners than anyone else. The Irish supremo took his tally to a majestic 88 winners after the 2022 festival!
Ruby Walsh is the all-time most successful rider at the Cheltenham Festival, having retired in 2019 with 59 winners on his CV.
The first female jockey to win a Grade 1 race during The Festival™ was Katie Walsh in 2018, winning The Weatherby's Champion Bumper. In 2022, Rachael Blackmore made history by becoming the first woman to win the Gold Cup onboard A Plus Tard, who will be going for glory again in 2023!