Brown Advisory Novices' Chase
14:00 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-12
Winner: £112,540
Runners: 23
Going: Soft
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, 8/10
- 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 – three in the Albert Bartlett (P1), one in the Ballymore (2), one in the Martin Pipe (1), one in the Pertemps Final (1), one in the Coral Cup (2) and one in the Champion Bumper (2)
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - BROWN ADVISORY NOVICES CHASE 2024
A future Gold Cup prospect emerged in last season’s Brown Advisory when the JP McManus-owned Fact To File scored easily by three and three-quarter lengths. Fact To File was the 8-13 favourite in the six-runner line-up and jumped efficiently on his way to a ready success under Mark Walsh. His stamina for three miles was a question mark going into the race but it proved no issue. Fact To File was the sixth winning favourite in the last ten years, while no winner in the last decade has returned bigger than 8-1.