Cheltenham betting: Redknapp's The Jukebox Man in Gold Cup running

Ladbrokes is bracing for the biggest betting week of the year as the Cheltenham Festival kicks off this Tuesday.

This year’s festival looks wide open and as punters take on the bookies, Ladbrokes can reveal the most popular picks of the four-day bonanza.

One of the biggest stories of the week centres on the Gold Cup, where Harry Redknapp’s The Jukebox Man has seen a surge of support over the weekend. The Ladbrokes King George winner is now 4/1 second-favourite and could be one of the biggest liabilities of the week.

Punters are banking on Nicky Henderson to get the week off on the right foot. Old Park Star is expected to be enormously popular in the curtain-raiser, where he currently sits as the 9/4 favourite. The Willie Mullins-trained Kopek Des Bordes is also amongst the best backed of the week in the Arkle at 6/4.

Racegoers will be hoping for a rub of the green on St. Patrick’s Thursday, with Bambino Fever (8/11), and Fact To File (8/13), expected to be enormously popular in the multiples.  

Nicola McGeady of Ladbrokes said; Cheltenham is the Olympics of horse racing, and this year punters are coming out swinging. Between the ‘Mullins Machine’ and the big gamble on Harry Redknapp's The Jukebox Man, we are looking at four days of high-stakes drama.

View the latest Cheltenham Festival odds and specials.

All odds and markets are correct as of the date of publication.