Paddy Power has an offer which lets new customers place a max £1 bet with 40/1 odds on the well regarded race horse Galopin Des Champs to win the Gold Cup this afternoon

And if something of such magnitude is taking place, plenty of people want to have a front seat at greatness today (Friday, March 14). Prestbury Park is a heaving mass of racegoers eager to bare witness to one of the blue riband events in the British sporting calendar.

The Cheltenham Festival comes to a close for another year as all eyes turn to the Gold Cup on the final day at Prestbury Park. Galopin Des Champs is looking to join only four horses, including Arkle and Best Mate, to win a Cheltenham Gold Cup hat-trick, and he is the firm favourite to do so for Willie Mullins.

Galopin Des Champs bids to become only the fifth horse to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup three times on Friday at the Festival.

Galopin des Champs bids to join the legends of jump racing Arkle, Best Mate, Cottage Rake and Golden Miller as a three-time winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.His jockey Paul Townend, who like Mullins is bidding for a fifth Gold Cup,

Langer Dan may not enjoy the same hype or possess the same quality as the brilliant Galopin Des Champs but Dan Skeleton’s charge matches the double Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in terms of Festival success and it’s worth siding with both of them to improve their tallies over the final two days of the meeting.