This is the fate that awaits jockey Paul Townend and Galopin Des Champs at the Cheltenham Festival this week. Back-to-back victories in the Gold Cup, in 2023 and 2024, have already secured their ...

Galopin Des Champs, last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, is now odds-on to repeat his success at next month's Festival meeting after winning his first Irish Gold Cup in three attempts on Saturday.