Cheltenham Festival races and tips LIVE as Day Four thrills and spills ahead with Gold Cup headlining

It’s day four of the Cheltenham Festival and the feature race is the Boodles Gold Cup.

The temperatures may have dipped below freezing overnight but Galopin Des Champs will go off as a very hot favourite for honours.

The reigning champion saw his recent form lines boosted yesterday when Fact To File took the Ryanair Chase and he’s looked imperious in the division this season.

East India Dock and Lulamba have been well backed for the Triumph Hurdle and the pair look to have the curtain raiser between them despite a predictably generous field size.

The County Hurdle sees Absurde back in an attempt to repeat last year’s romp. He’s been racing on the Flat in the interim and was fifth in the Melbourne Cup. Long absences seem to matter little to Willie Mullins charge and he’s gone up just 8lb in the handicap for last March’s success.

Dinoblue has been well touted for the Mares Chase though fellow Irish raider Brides Hill could give her something to think about.

The St James’s Place Open Hunters Chase is one of the top prizes of the year for the Amateur riders and Its On The Line has been runner-up in the last two renewals. The money has come though for Angels Dawn and she is a previous winner at the Festival in 2023.

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Nicky Henderson is no stranger to success in the Triumph Hurdle and he'll aim to land it for the eight time this afternoon.

Hopes are high at Seven Barrows with their recent French recruit, Lulamba.

The trainer told Unibet: "Visually, he looked very good at Ascot, where he did everything professionally, and, as many of you know, he’s a horse we think a great deal of. This is, however, a completely different ball game, and he does lack