Cheltenham Festival 2022 Gold Cup ante post news: A Plus Tard heads the market as Minella Indo is slashed in price

THE countdown to the Cheltenham Festival is on - and the ante post markets are taking shape.

One that has been in action since last year is the Gold Cup, one of the biggest races on the calendar.

Henry de Bromhead's Minella Indo won the showpiece race in March 2021 at 9-1, by one-and-a-quarter lengths from A Plus Tard.

SunSport looks at the odds for Friday week's showpiece after all the big guns have had months to state their claims.

Cheltenham Festival 2022 Gold Cup odds

10-3 A Plus Tard

7-2 Galvin

5-1 Minella Indo

8-1 Protektorat

10-1 Al Boum Photo

10-1 Conflated

12-1 Tornado Flyer

16-1 Chantry House

16-1 Royale Pagaille

20-1 Asterion Forlonge

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Cheltenham Gold Cup winners past five years

2021 - Minella Indo (Trainer: De Bromhead. Jockey: Kennedy)

2020 - Al Boum Photo (Trainer: Mullins. Jockey: Townend)

2019 - Al Boum Photo (Trainer: Mullins. Jockey: Townend)

2018 - Native River (Trainer: Tizzard. Jockey: Johnson)

2017 - Sizing John (Trainer: Harrington. Jockey: Power)

2016 - Don Cossack (Trainer: Elliott. Jockey: Cooper)

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A Plus Tard remains top of the pile after his runaway success in the Betfair Chase at Haydock earlier this season.

He was beaten narrowly by Galvin at Leopardstown in December and the two are closely matched, having not raced since.

Minella Indo has shortened in the betting after he bounced back from a quiet start to the season.

The two new horses on the scene are Irish Gold Cup winner Conflated and Dan Skelton's Protektorat. Conflated might still run in the Ryanair, though.

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