2025 Punchestown Gold Cup Trends

Staged at the five-day Punchestown Festival in April/May 2024 the Punchestown Gold Cup is a Grade One contest run over 3m1f.

The race version we see today was first run back in 1999 and since then has been won by some leading names, including Cheltenham Gold Cup winners Imperial Call, Kicking King, War Of Attrition & Don Cossack - while the 2012 Grand National winner, Neptune Collonges, took this twice before he landed the Aintree marathon.

Last year's winner was the Martin Brassil-trained Fastorslow, who lowered the colours of that year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs - for a second time in the race.

Did you know – 15 of the last 21 Punchestown Gold Cup winners were aged 7 or 8 years-old, while 16 of the last 21 winners were Irish-trained?

Here at GeeGeez, we take a look back at recent Punchestown Gold Cup winners, plus highlight the key stats ahead of the 2025 renewal – this year run on Wednesday ^30th April 2025.

Recent Punchestown Gold Cup Winners

2024 - FASTORSLOW (7/2)
2023 – FASTORSLOW (20/1)
2022 – ALLAHO (6/5 fav)
2021 – CLAN DES OBEAUX (10/3)
2020 – No race (Covid)
2019 – KEMBOY (13/8 fav)
2018 – BELLSHILL (4/1)
2017 – SIZING JOHN (9/10)
2016 – CARLINGFORD LOUGH (12/1)
2015 – DON COSSACK (5/2)
2014 – BOSTON BOB (5/2 fav)
2013 – SIR DES CHAMPS (2/1 fav)
2012 – CHINA ROCK (20/1)
2011 – FOLLOW THE PLAN (20/1)
2010 – PLANET OF SOUND (14/1)
2009 – NOTRE PERE (15/8 fav)
2008 – NEPTUNE COLLONGES (9/10 fav)
2007 – NEPTUNE COLLONGES (8/1)
2006 – WAR OF ATTRITION (4/5 fav)
2005 – KICKING KING (8/11 fav)
2004 – BEEF OF SALMON (5/4 fav)
2003 – FIRST GOLD (7/4 fav)

Punchestown Gold Cup Betting Trends

18/21 – Finished in the top 4 last time out
16/21 – Aged 8 or younger
16/21 – Irish-trained winners
15/21 – Aged 7 or 8 years-old
11/21– Had run in that season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup
10/21 – Returned 2/1 or shorter in the betting
10/21 – Winning favourites
9/21 – Won last time out
9/21 – Ran in the Cheltenham Gold Cup last time out
5/21 - Trained by Willie Mullins (5 of the last 11)
3/21 – Trained by Paul Nicholls
The average winning SP in the last 21 years is 6/1
9 of the last 19 favourites have won
Only 4 of the last 20 winners aged 9+
Paul Townend has only 1 winner in the race (Allaho, 2022)
10 of the last 16 Irish-trained favourites have won
Since 1999 only 3 Irish-trained winners hadn’t won at the course before
11 of the last 25 winners had run in that season’s John Durkan Memorial Chase

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