Coral Gold Cup Tips, Odds and Runners 2025

The Coral Gold Cup has held numerous names in recent seasons, though its field will always change year on year. Here are GG’s tips for the race, along with the runners and their odds.

Coral Gold Cup Tips

Previously known as the Hennessy Gold Cup, the guise under which it was run for many decades, the Coral Gold Cup is the crowning staying handicap chase of the early part of the jumps season. Run between late November and early December every season, it has regularly launched winners onto further National Hunt success, often at the top level in races such as the King George VI Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Taking place at Newbury, the race is contested over 3m and 21 fences, including four up a punishing straight. Given it is run late in the calendar year, the ground can often be testing, ensuring this is a stamina and jumping test that is almost unmatched throughout the season, hence why greats such as Mandarin, Arkle and Denman appear on the winners’ roll call.

With Irish raiders likely, and unexposed challengers aplenty too, here are who GG’s tipsters Andrew Mount and Matty Sutcliffe believe will win the race.

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Coral Gold Cup Ante-Post Tips: Matty Sutcliffe takes a look at the likely protagonists for historic Newbury handicap chase

The Coral Gold Cup, more commonly known as the ‘Hennessy’, takes centre stage at Newbury later this month over the testing trip of three miles and two furlongs. The valuable handicap has been etched in steeplechasing history since its inauguration in 1951 when Mandarin won it for Gerry Madden and Fulke Walwyn, who later regained…

Fri 07 Nov 2025

Coral Gold Cup Odds

Coral Gold Cup Racecourse 

Though the opening three runnings of the race were held at Cheltenham, Newbury has been the host course since 1960. It is among the easier tracks in terms of staying 3m in the country, though its long straight ensures stamina is tested to the max late on in the race. 21 fences is a serious test of stamina too.

Horses need to be at least four years old in order to take part, though the younger age group is rarely represented. Indeed, only one horse younger than seven has won this since 2014, so it does pay to have some decent experience in the book.

Denman put in some famous front-running performances in this race, while Native River and Cloth Cap have also made all in recent years. Nevertheless, leading is not necessarily the best way of racing in the Coral Gold Cup, with Datsalrightgino coming from the rear to record his victory a year ago.

Betting Strategies for the Coral Gold Cup

Betting on the Coral Gold Cup is rife throughout the day given its status as a handicap. Here is how you can make a wager on the race.

Each Way

Each-way bets on the second, third and fourth in 2023 would have rewarded backers despite their defeats, with profits for any horse above 5/1. This type of bet means you are placing half your stake on a win bet, and half on a horse to place, i.e. finish second, third or fourth (some bookies offer extended places).

Non Runner No Bet (NRNB)

So many horses do not make it to the race, even the ones mentioned above as the 2025 Coral Gold Cup favourites. Betting with NRNB terms means that you will not lose your stake if your horse fails to line up on the day.

Without the Favourite

With three winning favourites since 2016, betting without the favourite could still have rewarded some players, despite the handicap nature making this race more open. Carole’s Destrier went off at 25/1 when runner-up in 2016 and would not have been much shorter on without the favourite terms as a winning bet.

Are There Any Specific Coral Gold Cup Betting Offers?

This handicap race will be subject to each-way extra place offers come the day. The bookmakers who decide to offer such terms on the 2025 Coral Gold Cup will all be available to sign up for on GG.

Coral Gold Cup Trends & Historic Data

There is definitely a sweet spot for the ages of Coral Gold Cup winners within the trends. Eight of the last ten winners have been either seven or eight years old, with only Native River (six) and stablemate Sizing Tennessee (ten) bucking that trend.

Three favourites have won at prices of 7/2, 9/2 and 9/2, so this has been a winning race for favourite backers in recent years had you bet with a level stake. There has been some variety in winning odds though, especially with two of the last three winners going off at 33/1 and 16/1 respectively.

With this being a handicap, it is worth looking at the weight carried by the winners. Since 2017, only two winners have carried 11st or more, and one of those, Sizing Tennessee, was still in the bottom half of the handicap. Finding a runner who has escaped the handicapper’s clutches is a good way to go.

Last Year’s Coral Gold Cup Odds

In a relatively small field of 13 for the 2024 renewal, it was Paul Nicholls’ grey Kandoo Kid who proved the strongest stayer at the close, winning at 8/1.

Coral Gold Cup Horse Entries & Selections

A horse must have reached his fourth birthday by the time they race in the Coral Gold Cup. They must also have run enough races to have earned a handicap mark.

However, the race is generally the domain of those aged six and upwards given that experience is a key asset in staying chases. No horse younger than six years old has ever been victorious in the race, though equally, only one horse aged over ten has won in its history too.

Which Trainers Have Historically Had the Most Success in the Coral Gold Cup?

Fulke Walwyn, the trainer of Arkle’s original foe Mill House, has claimed the most Coral Gold Cups, although it was the Hennessy Gold Cup at the time, and all the way up until 2016. The contest is still colloquially known under that sponsor’s name given its long history with the race and indeed Mill House was one of his winners. Another of his victors, Mandarin, won two editions a remarkable four years apart.

No other trainer had ever won the Coral Gold Cup on more than three occasions until last season when Paul Nicholls claimed a fourth courtesy of Kandoo Kid.

Coral Gold Cup Past Winners