The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is run over 3 miles and 110 yards
on the Old Course at Cheltenham, where it is currently scheduled as
the second race on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival in March
each year.
The The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is open
to novices – that is, horses that prior to the start of the current
season have yet to win a steeplechase – aged five years and
upwards, who are allocated weight according to their age and sex,
with no penalties for previous performances. The most successful of
the current crop of trainers is Willie Mullins, who saddled Florida
Pearl (1998), Rule Supreme (2004), Cooldine (2009) and Don Poli
(2015), Monkfish (2021), Fact To File (2024), Lecky Watson (2025) for a total of seven wins, so far.
Winners of The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase often return to the Cheltenham Festival to win the Cheltenham
Gold Cup. Denman (2007), Bobs Worth (2012) and
Lord Windermere (2013), all returned to Prestbury Park to win the
‘Blue Riband’ event in the National Hunt calendar in the year
immediately following victory in the The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase.
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