Brown Advisory Novices' Chase
14:00 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-12
Winner: £
Runners: 24
Going:
No. of hurdles: 19
Distance: 3m0f110y
The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (formerly the RSA Chase) takes place at 2.00pm on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival and is the most prestigious race of the jumps season for staying novice chasers. It is the novices’ equivalent of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and several winners have gone on to triumph in the Gold Cup itself in later years, including most recently Denman, Bobs Worth and Lord Windermere.
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BROWN ADVISORY NOVICES CHASE PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous Form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2024 | Fact To File | 22-211 | 7 | 8-13F | Willie Mullins | Mark Walsh |
| 2023 | The Real Whacker | 011 | 7 | 8-1 | Patrick Neville | Sam Twiston-Davies |
| 2022 | L’Homme Presse | 6-1111 | 7 | 9-4F | Venetia Williams | Charlie Deutsch |
| 2021 | Monkfish | 11-111 | 7 | 1-4F | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2020 | Champ | 21-11F | 8 | 4-1 | Nicky Henderson | Barry Geraghty |
| 2019 | Topofthegame | 412-22 | 7 | 4-1 | Paul NIcholls | Harry Cobden |
| 2018 | Presenting Percy | 13112 | 7 | 5-2F | Pat Kelly | Davy Russell |
| 2017 | Might Bite | 7-21F1 | 8 | 7-2F | Nicky Henderson | Nico de Boinville |
| 2016 | Blaklion | 4F121 | 7 | 8-1 | Nigel Twiston-Davies | Ryan Hatch |
| 2015 | Don Poli | 11-211 | 6 | 13-8F | Willie Mullins | Bryan Cooper |
BROWN ADVISORY NOVICES CHASE KEY TRENDS AND STATS
Key trends
- Contested a Graded chase, 10/10 (six won)
- Top-two finish last time out, 9/10 (exception fell)
- Six to 12 hurdle and chase runs, 9/10
- Aged seven or eight, 9/10
- Adjusted RPR of at least 165, 9/10
- Rated within 5lb of RPR top-rated, 9/10
- Ran three to five times over fences, 8/10
Other factors
- Of the combined 40 chase starts of winners, only 2016 scorer Blaklion had finished outside the first three when completing (five had fallen).
- Seven winners had previously run at the festival – four in the Albert Bartlett (4P1), one in the Ballymore (2), one in the Martin Pipe (1), one in the Pertemps Final (1) and one in the Coral Cup (2).
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - BROWN ADVISORY NOVICES CHASE 2023
THE REAL WHACKER took it up another notch to make it 3-3 in course novice chases from the front this season, good jumping a feature again, seeing off his long-time closest pursuer before just holding on from the strong-finishing second. Gerri Colombe was just touched off in second, clear of Bronn in third.