# Cheltenham Gold Cup Winners: The Full Roll of Honour (1970-2026)

_Every Cheltenham Gold Cup winner since 1970 - horse, age, starting price, jockey and trainer - with the trends that emerge across the full roll of honour. Source-verified._

*Source: [https://stablebet.co.uk/uk-racecourses/cheltenham/cheltenham-gold-cup-winners/](https://stablebet.co.uk/uk-racecourses/cheltenham/cheltenham-gold-cup-winners/) · last updated 2026-07-19*

The Cheltenham Gold Cup is the blue riband of jump racing, the championship of the staying chasers, run at level weights over three and a quarter miles on the Friday of the Cheltenham Festival. This is the full roll of honour from 1970 to 2026 - every winning horse with its age, starting price, jockey and trainer - and the age, market and training trends that emerge across the whole history.

Every row is source-verified against two independent records; unsourced cells are left blank rather than guessed. The 2001 running is shown as not run - the entire Festival was abandoned in the foot-and-mouth outbreak.

For the meeting, see [Cheltenham Racecourse](/uk-racecourses/cheltenham/) and the live [racecards](/racecards/).

Every winner since 1970, newest first. SP is the official returned price, with the favourite marker where it applied.

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### What the trends tell you

Read these as history, not a system. Because the Gold Cup is run at level weights, class tells, and the roll of honour is a list of champions: Best Mate's three in a row (2002-2004) is the modern highlight, and Willie Mullins and Paul Townend lead the recent trainer and jockey records. Eight is the most common winning age. Favourites win more often here than in a handicap, but the race still throws up its shocks. None of this is advice, it is simply what the race has done.

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## Cheltenham Gold Cup winners: FAQ

### Who has trained the most Cheltenham Gold Cup winners?
In our 1970-2026 records Willie Mullins leads the modern trainers with five. The all-time greats sit further back, with Tom Dreaper and, before the war, Golden Miller defining the race's early history.

### Which horse has won the most modern Gold Cups?
Best Mate, three years running from 2002 to 2004 - the first to complete the hat-trick since Arkle in the 1960s. Kauto Star, Al Boum Photo and Galopin Des Champs have each won it twice in the modern era.

### What age wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
Eight is the single most common winning age since 1970, with the seven-to-nine band accounting for the large majority. It is a race for a chaser at the peak of its powers.

### Was the Gold Cup run in 2001?
No. The entire 2001 Cheltenham Festival was abandoned because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, so there is no 2001 Gold Cup winner.