You can find the runners & entries for the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase for this year's Cheltenham Festival down below.
As a reminder, this is a full list of entries, but 5 days before the race there will be further declarations, and final declarations 48 hours before.
This is where all of our tips will be for the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase , we also have you covered with daily tips.
The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is the second race on ladies day and following the Ballymore, is another Grade One, this time over fences.
The race is run over the old Cheltenham course over 3 miles and is open to novice chasers age five and older. The race is often seen as a steppingstone for the novices to the following season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup. It is seen as the ultimate novice chasing test, with 20 fences of Prestbury Park to complete.
£98,000 is on offer to the winner of the biggest novice chase of the year.
The race was run in 1946 and was titled the Broadway Novices’ Chase however since the 1960’s has been known under a variety of different sponsorship titles. In 1964, it was taken over by the betting tote, who named the race for 10 renewals, calling it the Totalisor Champion Novices’ Chase.
It was then replaced by Sun Alliance, who named the race until 1996, when they merged with the Royal group and together, they named it until 2008.
Since then, it has been named the RSA, who are an insurance Group and they’ll continue their sponsorship in 2020.
The race is often seen to set up novice chasers for a tilt at the Cheltenham Gold Cup the following season, with many going on to do so, the most recent Lord Windermere, who was victorious in this race in 2013 and went onto Gold Cup success the year after.
The 2019 race was a memorable one as it was dominated by the front three in the betting, but it was Paul Nichols and Harry Cobden who were the winners, with TopoftheGame, giving Nichols a third win in the race.
Despite Nichols making it a hat trick of wins, like many other races at the Cheltenham festival, Willie Mullins sits at the top of the tree for most wins, with four to his name, the most recent one in 2015. He isn’t however alone, with Fulke Walwyn amassing four wins to between 1948 to 1957. The pair won the race with the following:
Pat Taafee:
Mountain Prince (1948)
On View (1951)
Glenbeigh (1954)
Mandarin (1957)
Willie Mullins:
Florida Pearl (1998)
Rule Supreme (2004)
Cooldine (2009)
Don Poli (2015)
Pat Taaffe’s four wins of the race between 1953 to 1970 mean he is the most successful jockey to have ridden in the race.
He could be joined however in 2020, with both Davey Russel and Barry Geraghty having both won the race on three occasions and they may well have live chances to make it four, so it’ll be worth noting who their mounts are.
As well as Mullins and Nichols, Nicky Henderson is also worth taking a close look at. He fielded Santini last year, who finished a close second and before that took the race in 2005 and 2017.
| Year | Winner | Age | SP | Trainer | Jockey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L'Homme Presse | 7 | 9/4 | Venetia Williams | Charlie Deutsch |
| 2021 | Monkfish | 7 | 1/4 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2020 | Champ | 8 | 4/1 | Nicky Henderson | Barry Geraghty |
| 2019 | Topofthegame | 7 | 4/1 | Paul Nicholls | Harry Cobden |
| 2018 | Presenting Percy | 7 | 5/2 | Patrick Kelly | Davy Russell |
| 2017 | Might Bite | 8 | 7/2 | Nicky Henderson | Nico de Boinville |
| 2016 | Blaklion | 7 | 8/1 | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Ryan Hatch |
| 2015 | Don Poli | 6 | 13/8 | Willie Mullins | Bryan Cooper |
| 2014 | O’Faolains Boy | 7 | 12/1 | Rebecca Curtis | Barry Geraghty |
| 2013 | Lord Windermere | 7 | 8/1 | Jim Culloty | Davy Russell |
If you’re looking for our thoughts on who you should back in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase take a look at our Day 2 Tips page to see everything, we’re backing for this race at the Cheltenham Festival.
You can also see all the latest odds for this race on our Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Odds page allowing you to see which bookmakers are offering the best price on each horse in the race.
