Galopin Des Champs, Dinoblue & Kopeck De Mee are the Day Four Cheltenham Festival Bankers

Any unfortunate punters in a hole on day four of the Cheltenham Festival may look to these three bankers to get themselves out of trouble.

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Cheltenham Bankers Day Four: Friday 14th March 2025

Dinoblue can avenge last year’s silver medal in the Mares’ Chase

Sent off 15/8 favourite in last year’s Mares’ Chase, Dinoblue went down by an agonising ¾ length to fellow JP McManus runner Limerick Lace in receipt of a crucial 5lbs.

This time around, luckily for Dinoblue it appears she doesn’t have any strong challengers. Limerick Lace has been tailed off on both runs this season and despite some reports of promising work at home, it’s hardly ideal preparation.

Main market rival Allegorie De Vassy has never beaten Dinoblue in two career meetings over fences, coming in this race last year and a clash over two miles at Naas last month.

Dinoblue was runner-up in the G1 Dublin Chase and a close third in the G1 Punchestown Champion Chase

Once you start going through the field and crossing off contenders, Dinoblue looks a solid proposition. She brings solid Grade 1 form to the table from the Dublin Chase and Punchestown Champion Chase last year.

The eight-year-old looked much more comfortable running against her own sex at Naas after two disappointing runs against the boys in December and she is more than overdue a win at the Cheltenham Festival.

WATCH: Dinoblue is narrowly denied in the 2024 Mares’ Chase

Galopin Des Champs is a no-brainer in his quest for a third straight Gold Cup

While most punters won’t be looking to get stuck into Galopin Des Champs at 1/2, he’s certainly one to include in the accumulators and it’d be nothing short of a catastrophe were he denied the win.

After an encouraging third on reappearance in the John Durkan Chase at Punchestown in November, Galopin Des Champs climbed back on top with repeat victories at Leopardstown in the Savills Chase and Irish Gold Cup.

Considering this year’s field is likely to be the weakest renewal he has contested so far, there is simply no looking past the nine-year-old who bids to become the first since Best Mate to land three straight Gold Cups.

Plenty of Cheltenham Gold Cup trends are in his favour too, as four of the last five favourites have won the race and 21 of the last 24 winners finished first or second in their last race.

22 runs, 14 wins, 11 Grade 1s – the horse of a lifetime

There is no questioning Galopin Des Champs’ credentials. He is without doubt one of the greatest staying chasers of all-time, tallying 14 wins including 11 Grade 1s from 22 career runs.

Current Cheltenham Festival top jockey Paul Townend will become the most successful pilot in Gold Cup history if victorious in Friday’s feature race, overtaking Pat Taaffe who won four during the 1960s.

WATCH: Galopin Des Champs is all class in the 2024 Cheltenham Gold Cup

Kopeck De Mee carries plenty of unknowns – but one thing you can be sure of is the deadly owner-trainer combination

The biggest hype horse of the Cheltenham Festival is without a doubt French recruit Kopeck De Mee, trained by Mullins and owned by McManus who heads for the Martin Pipe Handicap Hurdle.

The Martin Pipe is the final contest of the festival on Friday and plenty will be hoping to cash in on this preview night hotpot, slapped with a mark of 136 by the BHA handicapper.

The five-year-old arrived at Closutton at the start of the season with the intention of going over fences straightaway but picked up an early injury which threw a spanner in the works.

He only recently came back to full fitness and since it was too late in the season to go chasing, it was decided he’d head for a handicap hurdle at the festival.

Last season Kopeck De Mee won three consecutive races over hurdles by a combined 27 lengths in and he’ll run off 11st 3lb in the Martin Pipe.

Is Kopeck De Mee chucked in off 136?

There’s every possibility he is, but in the last ten years just 13 horses have made their handicap hurdle debut at the Cheltenham Festival after having their last run in .

Two of those 13 have won – Paul Nicholls pair Aux Ptits Soins (9/1) in the 2015 Coral Cup and Diego Du Charmil (13/2) in the 2016 Fred Winter.

One of those notable losers was Gaelic Warrior, last year’s Arkle winner who somehow managed to get beat off 129 in the Fred Winter.

WATCH: Kopeck De Mee wins the Prix Miror Hurdle at Auteuil

🏅 𝗞𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲 (A. Pageot /J. Boisnard) enlève le Prix Miror (Listed) à Auteuil.

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If you wanted to back all three of the day four bankers in a treble with the best horse racing betting sites in the UK, you can enjoy odds of around 15/1.

Cheltenham Festival Day Four 2025 Details

📅 Date: Friday, March 14th 2025
⌚ Race Times: 1:20pm – 5:20pm
🏇 Racecourse: Cheltenham
📺 TV: ITV / Racing TV

See how to watch the Cheltenham Festival 2025 here as well as dates, times and TV channels for all 28 races.