Cheltenham Gold Cup Tips: Seeking the each-way value

I can scarcely believe it's Friday already, Day 4 of the Festival, and time for the meeting's great crescendo - The Cheltenham Gold Cup. We've a potential history-maker in the field going for a three-timer (Galopin Des Champs), and eight hungry rivals intent on preventing him.

The race is scheduled to start at 16:00, and after several odds-on shots this week have given punters headaches aplenty, can the supposed 'good thing' live up to his billing?

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Inothewayurthinkin each-way @ 13/2

Important to say that the most likely outcome according to most pundits and indeed the bookmaking fraternity as a whole is victory for the admirable Galopin Des Champs, Willie Mullins' superstar winner of the last two renewals of this great race.

However; we've seen several shocks this week when confronted by apparent flyers with a bit up their sleeve, and I don't want to get involved at around 1/2 or thereabouts. He can happily run without my support, and if the gods determine it's to be three-in-a-row, so be it.

I'm concentrating instead on some each-way value, and have three to recommend; the first of which is Gavin Cromwell's Inothewayurthinkin. 

He ran behind 'Galopin' 41 days ago in the Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown, beaten just over 7l. The trip there was a smidge over three miles, and the selection gets an additional 1.5f AND Cheltenham's far stiffer contours today, including that famous hill.

We're on a younger horse (seven) who was doing his best work at the finish last time, running on; and most importantly he readily took last season's Kim Muir here, over the Gold Cup trip, with a degree of comfort.

He's stepping up now, of course he is; but this looks a very plausible mission for the upwardly-mobile Walk In The Park gelding. Mark Walsh rides for owner JP McManus. Tremendous e/w chance, and can only surely improve.

Corbett's Cross each-way @ 18/1

Another JP-owned entry, trained by Emmet Mullins and the mount of Jack Kennedy.

Corbett's Cross is a talented eight-year-old gelding with six career wins from 17 starts. He ran in the King George on Boxing Day and didn't really get into the race (flat track, 3m), which in the context of this test is no bad thing, if you get my drift.

It's 3m 2.5f here, and as alluded to already the action takes place on a much stiffer track, allowing this one's staying power to kick in (he won the National Hunt Cup here last term over 3m 6f).

Fingers crossed that his shrewd handler has him cherry-ripe for this and that 'Corbett's' can get involved, perhaps late in the piece, at a cracking price.

The Real Whacker each-way @ 33/1

Finally, I'm going to have a few pennies on The Real Whacker. Patrick Neville trains in North Yorkshire and the nine-year-old Mahler gelding is a Festival winner already (2023 Brown Advisory, over 3m and change).

He's been fairly unsurprisingly highly tried since, and pulled-up in this race last year. However, there are just nine slated to face the starter, and at the price I'm happy to commit a small amount on the chances of him making the top three.

He's had a nice little break since Boxing Day (down the field in the King George, but running on encouragingly at the business end), and with one or two definitely having doubts about getting the trip competitively, it's a price, and a chance, I can't entirely resist.

We're firing a few each-way darts with hopes of at least grabbing a place and who knows - perhaps even more!

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