Paddy Power Gold Cup Next Running: Sunday November 11th, 2012
The Paddy Power Gold Cup is a Grade 3 National Hunt horse race for five-year-old and above horses.
It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham Racecourse.
There are fifteen fences to be jumped in the race.
Martin Pipe trained seven winners of the race from 1996 to 2005. All except Shooting Light were owned by David Johnson.
| Distance: | 2m 4f 110y | Details: | (Grade 3) (Class 1) (4yo+) | Racecourse: | Cheltenham | Race Type: | Jumps |
Winning Trends for the Paddy Power Gold Cup
Age Trend: Range: 6 - 7yo.
Trainer Trend: MC Pipe & D Pipe have trained three winners and NA Twiston-Davies has trained two winners in the last nine years.
Jockey Trend: TJ Murphy was the jockey on all of Pipe's winners.
Favourite Trend: The favourite has won three times in the last nine years.
Weight Trend: Range: 10-2 - 11-7.
Official Rating Trend: Range: 136 - 150.
Paddy Power Gold Cup Previous Winners
| YEAR | HORSE | A/G | WGT | LTO | FORM | TRAINER | JOCKEY | RAN | OR | SP |
| 2011 | Great Endeavour (Ire) (CD) | 7g | 10-3 | 217 | 41/62F6- | D Pipe | TJ Murphy | 20 | 147 | 8/1 (3f) |
| 2010 | Little Josh (Ire) (D) | 8g | 10-8 | 13 | F1F16-1 | NA Twiston-Davies | S Twiston-Davies (3) | 18 | 146 | 20/1 |
| 2009 | Tranquil Sea (Ire) (D) | 7g | 10-13 | 14 | 6-21 | EJ O'Grady | AJ Mcnamara | 16 | 140 | 11/2 (f) |
| 2008 | Imperial Commander (Ire) (CD) | 7g | 10-7 | 330 | 114- | NA Twiston-Davies | PJ Brennan | 19 | 139 | 13/2 (3f) |
| 2007 | L'Antartique (Fr) (CD) | 7g | 10-13 | 13 | 1U-1 | Ferdy Murphy | G Lee | 20 | 146 | 13/2 (2f) |
| 2006 | Exotic Dancer (Fr) (C) | 6g | 11-2 | 5 | 1F-2 | Jonjo ONeill | AP McCoy | 16 | 139 | 16/1 |
| 2005 | Our Vic (Ire) | 7g | 11-7 | 215 | FPP- | MC Pipe | TJ Murphy | 18 | 149 | 9/2 (f) |
| 2004 | Celestial Gold (Ire) (C) | 6g | 10-2 | 210 | 321- | MC Pipe | TJ Murphy | 14 | 136 | 12/1 |
| 2003 | Fondmort (Fr) (C) | 7g | 10-13 | 210 | 722- | N Henderson | MA Fitzgerald | 9 | 150 | 3/1 (f) |

