Cheltenham Tips: Harry Cobden’s Friday fancies for day 4 of the 2025 Festival

It's Gold Cup day and UK champion jumps jockey Harry Cobden delivers his view.

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Friday sees the curtain come down on the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and our PP ambassador, Harry Cobden, joins us one more time to give us his picks for the final day of racing.

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Harry Cobden’s Cheltenham Day Four picks

13:20 Lulamba
14:40 Dinoblue
15:20 Ma Shantou (each-way)
16:00 Galopin Des Champs

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

13:20 Lulamba

Palladium was a late non runner and I was looking forward to riding him. I’ve seen Lulamba school at Nicky Henderson’s when I was there and he’s the horse to beat. This is a very exiting race and while East India Dock is the solid one because we’ve seen how good he is, if I could pick a ride in this race I’d side with Lulamba. His performance at Ascot was almost freakish.

2/1
Lulamba Win or Each Way

14:40 Dinoblue

Dinoblue will go off favourite and she will be very hard to beat.

1/1
Dinoblue Win or Each Way

 

15:20 Ma Shantou (each-way)

I’ll be riding Ma Shantou for Emma Lavelle and he’s got a little chance. I’ve won this race twice and on both occasions I was riding straightforward horses who had loads of stamina. You don’t need too much class as a slogger will win this race. Ma Shantou is hardy, he jumps and he’s slightly overpriced.

30/1
Ma Shantou Win or Each Way

16:00 Galopin Des Champs

Galopin Des Champs is different class and there isn’t anything else in here that can beat him in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. There isn’t even a tactical way that he gets beaten. I love the way he tries, he’s a brilliant horse and you’d give your right arm to have one like him in your yard.

4/7
Galopin Des Champs Win or Each Way

Harry Cobden’s Cheltenham Day Four picks

13:20 Lulamba
14:40 Dinoblue
15:20 Ma Shantou (each-way)
16:00 Galopin Des Champs

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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