Festival Plate Handicap
16:10 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-13
The TrustaTrader Festival Plate is a handicap chase over 2m4.5f which takes place on day three of the Cheltenham Festival. It is often the springboard to bigger success and in recent years Road To Respect and The Storyteller have won the Plate before going on to strike at Grade 1 level. Check the TrustaTrader Festival Plate Handicap runners and riders ahead of the race and place your bets by clicking the odds buttons.
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TrustaTrader Festival Plate Handicap PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2024 | Shakem Up’arry | 34-P61 | 10 | 8-1 | Ben Pauling | Ben Jones |
| 2023 | Seddon | 2311 | 10 | 20-1 | John C McConnell | Ben Harvey (5) |
| 2022 | Coole Cody | 2F187 | 11 | 22-1 | Evan Williams | Adam Wedge |
| 2021 | The Shunter | 114131 | 8 | 9-4F | Emmet Mullins | J Gainford |
| 2020 | Simply The Betts | 4-1121 | 7 | 100-30F | Harry Whittington | Gavin Sheehan |
| 2019 | Siruh Du Lac | 13-111 | 6 | 9-2 | Nick Williams | Lizzie Kelly |
| 2018 | The Storyteller | 1-2137 | 7 | 5-1F | Gordon Elliott | Davy Russell |
| 2017 | Road To Respect | 14322 | 6 | 14-1 | Noel Meade | Bryan Cooper |
| 2016 | Empire Of Dirt | F-F2P1 | 9 | 16-1 | Colm Murphy | Bryan Cooper |
| 2015 | Darna | F7/157 | 9 | 33-1 | Kim Bailey | David Bass |
TrustaTrader Festival Plate Handicap KEY TRENDS AND STATS
Key trends
- Won between 2m3f and 2m5f, 10/10
- No more than 11 runs over fences, 8/10
- Won a Class 3 or higher, 8/10
- Officially rated 140 to 145, 8/10
- Carried no more than 10st 13lb, 7/10
Other factors
- Only two of the last ten winners placed in one of the big 2m4f-2m5f handicaps at Cheltenham that season (Siruh Du Lac and Coole Cody).
- Irish trainers have won five of the last eight runnings (their last winner before them was Doubleuagain in 1982).
- Five winners scored last time out but four of the other five failed to place.
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - FESTIVAL PLATE 2023
SEDDON absent since an easy win at Leopardstown at the end of December. That came off an Irish mark of 123 but he shrugged off his hefty rise to take this. Fugitif, not ridden as prominently as the winner, looked a big threat early on the run-in before having to give best, while Shakem Up’arry saw out the trip better than he had here on New Year’s Day and clung on to third. Favourite Datsalrightgino was never travelling and reportedly would have prefered a better surface.