Cheltenham Festival 2018: How to choose the Gold Cup winner with our horse predictor

With the Cheltenham Festival underway, punters will already be looking for any help available in picking the winner of the Gold Cup on Friday in the race meet’s flagship event.

As history shows, picking the Gold Cup winner is up there with choosing the Grand National-winning horse – it’s basically a bit of a lottery.

So while you can read every guide, listen to every tip and follow every trend, chances are the odds are not going to be in your favour, but along with the help of myracing.com we’ve come up with a generator that might just pick out the winning horse for you.

Depending on the latest odds and form, along with a little help from your lucky number of favourite colour, use the generator below to find out which horse you should be willing to put your mortgage on this week.

Of course, we don’t actually advise you to lay your mortgage in a race, and after all, it’s supposed to be a pit of fun. But if you’re in it for real, you can keep up to date with our Cheltenham live blog and latest results page.