The Brown Advisory & Merriebelle
Stable Plate has been run in various guises over the years, but was
inaugurated in 1951 as the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup, in
memory of Anthony Bingham Mildmay, the second Baron Mildmay of Flete.
Mildmay rode eight winners at Cheltenham, including three at the
Cheltenham Festival, before his premature death by drowning in 1950.
The Brown Advisory & Meribelle
Stable Plate is run over 2 miles 5 furlongs on the New Course at
Cheltenham and is currently scheduled as fifth race on the third, and
penultimate, day of the Cheltenham Festival. The race is a Grade 3
handicap chasewith a purse of £120,000 in 2025 – and each horse
carries a weight allocated according its ability, in the eyes of the
official handicapper. Horses aged five years and upwards are eligible
to take part and must negotiate a total of seventeen plain fences,
open ditches and water jumps.
Veteran trainer Nicholas John “Nicky”
Henderson is the joint most successful trainer in the history of the Brown Advisory & Meribelle Stable Plate alongside Bobby Renton and David Pipe. The Master of Seven Barrows
sent out The Tsarevich (1985, 1986), Liberthine (2005), and Non So
(2006) for a total of four wins.
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