- A supercomputer has predicted which horse will win the Cheltenham Gold Cup
- The festival has delivered drama all the way through the week
- Golden Ace won the Champion Hurdle ahead of favourite Constitution Hill
A supercomputer has predicted which horse will win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2025 ahead of the race taking place on Friday afternoon.
The festival has delivered drama all the way through the week, with unfancied outsider Golden Ace winning the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday ahead of favourites Constitution Hill and State Man who both fell out the race.
But the supercomputer’s analysis has a different predicition for the highly-anticipated Gold Cup, predicting a number of favourites to be in contention for the trophy.
Galopin Des Champs – who is trained by Willie Mullins – will seek a third successive total in the festival’s top race.
Should he take home the cup, it would mark only the third time in history that this feat would be achieved.
Galopin Des Champs is looking to emulate the successes of Best Mate from 2002 to 2004 and Arkle from 1964 to 1966.
A supercomputer has predicted which horse will win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2025
The festival has delivered drama all the way through the week, with unfancied outsider Golden Ace winning the Champion Hurdle
A supercomputer powered by bet365 has used data going all the way back to 1990 to determine the winner of the race.
An algorithm then attributes a score of between 1 and -1 depending on how well each horse matches the winning characteristics.
The computer gave Galopin des Champs a similarity score of 0.807 – which gives him a 17.5% chance of winning the Gold Cup for a third year in a row.
Should the favourite win, he would become the first ever horse to notch a hat-trick of wins at the Gold Cup.
Others with a strong chance according to the supercomputer includes the likes of Banbridge, Monty’s Star, and Corbetts Cross.
Former jockey Aidan Coleman also backs Galopin Des Champs to create history.
He said: ‘Galopin Des Champs is by far the best horse in the race. I think he should be 1-10, I really do!
‘You’re pretty much backing him to jump around, which isn’t always straight forward but if he does that, he’ll win.’
