Cheltenham Festival 2023: Galopin Des Champs wins the Gold Cup – as it happened

Paul Townend and Galopin Des Champs celebrate after winning the Gold Cup by five lengths. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

5.48pm GMT

So, that’s that, the Cheltenham Festival done for another year. It was the year of Constitution Hill, bidding happy farewell to Honeysuckle, another Champion Chase for Energumene and today, all about Galopin Des Champs, a third Gold Cup for the combination of Willie Mullins and Paul Townend.

Updated at 7.38pm GMT

5.44pm GMT

5.30 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle result

• 1 Iroko (A P Kelly) 6-1

• 2 No Ordinary Joe (Luca Morgan) 14-1

• 3 Buddy One (Jack G Gilligan) 28-1

• 4 Might I (Lorcan Murtagh) 6-1

• 21 ran

💚💛 Iroko - he provides owner JP McManus with a quickfire double & also gives trainers Oliver Greenall & Josh Guerriero their first #CheltenhamFestival success

👏 Nice ride Aidan Kelly pic.twitter.com/zPmErT2YPS

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) March 17, 2023