Triumph Hurdle Betting Preview – Cheltenham Day 4 Tips (2025)

The Triumph Hurdle is the opening race on Day 4 of the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and 18 runners have been declared for one of the biggest horse racing betting heats of the season.

We’ve known the early entries for the Triumph Hurdle for some time now but decisions have been made and all eyes will be on Prestbury Park on Friday afternoon.

Here, we look at some of the leading players in the Cheltenham odds for this year’s race, with a Triumph Hurdle selection ahead of the 2025 renewal.

Gold Cup day at the Cheltenham Festival kicks off with the best four-year-olds in National Hunt taking part in the Triumph Hurdle. This two-mile Grade One always provides Friday’s racegoers with a wonderful spectacle and this year’s renewal is looking wide open.

Nicky Henderson’s LULAMBA is marginally shading the outright betting and looks to have a fantastic chance of collecting the spoils.

An impressive winner at Auteuil (Prix Isopani Hurdle: 2m2f Heavy)in October, Lulamba made the perfect start on British shores in January. Nicky Henderson’s French import coasted along and jumped sweetly at Ascot and asserted after the last to beat Mondo Man by three-and-a-half lengths.

If the four-year-old arrives fit and sound he’s going to be the one they all have to beat.

Close to him in the betting is James Owen’s East India Dock, who cemented his Cheltenham Festival credentials with a ten-length success in the Grade 2 Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle.

The four-year-old made all the running to follow up his impressive victory at the same venue in November and has been popular for the Triumph Hurdle with punters ever since.

One horse that is sure to get legions of followers supporting him is the Raceshare-owned Gibbs Island.

He has been a dream to own so far for his syndicate owners, with two wins from as many runs, the latest in the Class 2 Victor Ludorum Juvenile Hurdle at Haydock where he blew the field apart, despite doing plenty wrong in the early parts of the race. That victory came after a protracted duel at Sedgefield on his debut over timber, with the horse he beat coasting home in her next race.

If the front two in the betting take each other on too early in proceedings, then it could be a solid horse like Gibbs Island who could potentially pick them off late in the piece.

Trainer Gavin Cromwell will be hopeful that he has found the perfect blend with his Harzand-gelding  Hello Neighbour.

Harzand was of the course the 2016 Derby winner, and with Montjeu on the dam’s side, this gelding was always going to be a pretty decent performer. That has proved to be the case already with the four-year-old winning a Group 1 and Group 2  hurdle after two victories on the flat. He’s currently a perfect four from four.

Hello Neighbour appears to be the best of the Irish challengers in a race that has that betting rarity of two British runners at the head of the market.

Those punters looking for a massive outsider amongst all the shorties, may want to have a small each-way interest on James Owen’s Opec.

After clocking up a nice three-timer at the start of the season his form has wavered somewhat. However, if he can recapture those early efforts, he could easily outrun his odds.

SELECTION: LULAMBA