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bet365 Celebration Chase Betting Tips, Winners & History

Meeting:
Jump Finale
Racecourse:
Sandown
Grade:
Grade 1

The end of April marks the official closing of the National Hunt season and as ever Sandown Park steps in to give it a fitting send off. They have a cracking seven-race card on Finale Day, the pick of which – certainly in terms of the class of runner on show – is this event for the crème de la crème of the two-mile chasers.

Next Race: TBD

The next renewal of this race has not been scheduled yet. We will update this once the schedule has been released for next season. The race info, trends and tips shown below will be updated for the next renewal once the final declarations have been made.

Last Run: 27th April 2019

  • Winner: Altior
  • SP: 1/6
  • Trainer: Nicky Henderson
  • Jockey: Nico de Boinville

Race Info

The going is currently described as good for this 1m7½f Grade 1 Chase contest which offers a total of £150,000 in prize money.

Going Distance Grade Prize Money Runners EW Terms
Good 1m7½f Grade 1 £150,000 12 Runners 1/4 1-2

bet365 Celebration Chase Betting Tips

Sandown, 15:00, Saturday 25th April 2020

Note: The following tips are from 2020. Tips for the next renewal will be added once the final declarations have been made.

Race cancelled.

bet365 Celebration Chase Winners

Year Winner SP Trainer Jockey
2020 Abandoned - - -
2019 Altior 1/6 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2018 Altior 2/11 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2017 Altior 30/100 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2016 Sprinter Sacre 11/10 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2015 Special Tiara 3/1 Henry De Bromhead Noel Fehily
2014 Sire De Grugy 2/7 Gary Moore Jamie Moore
2013 Sire De Grugy 6/1 Gary Moore Jamie Moore
2012 Sanctuaire 9/2 Paul Nicholls Daryl Jacob
2011 French Opera 2/1 Nicky Henderson A P McCoy

About the Celebration Chase: Season Ending Top Two Mile Contest

Sandown Park Parade Ring
George Redgrave, flickr

The Celebration Chase is a very fitting name for a race which helps to draw the National Hunt season to a close. Held annual in late April at Sandown Park, the Celebration Chase has been established as a very important contest despite the fact that it was only inaugurated in 2001. In fact, were it not for the foot and mouth crisis of that year which forced the cancellation of the Cheltenham Festival it would likely never have been introduced.

An Instant and Enduring Hit

2001 Written in 3D Gold Numbers

The British Horseracing Authority will not remember the winter and spring of 2001 with any fondness. The cancellation of Cheltenham cost them, the course, connections and the local economy a huge amount of money and left the organisers scrambling about to find replacements for the races that were lost.

The Celebration Chase was introduced as a replacement for the Queen Mother Champion Chase. In fact its original title was the Queen Mother Championship Chase before changing to the Queen Mother Celebration Chase in 2002 and then being shortened to simply the Celebration Chase in 2005 when it was awarded Grade 2 status. It’s currently known as the bet365 Celebration Chase and is the biggest race on a card which includes both National Hunt and flat races.

Connections of the best minimum distance chasers have always supported the Celebration Chase. They love the chance for their stars to secure one more big win and a healthy prize fund which reached £150,000 in 2019. Early winners included Edredon Bleu and Well Chief and the calibre of victors has only improved with three high class horses following up victory in the Champion Chase with another in the Celebration Chase in the same season. Celebration Chase winner in 2015, Special Tiara, showed that it’s possible to do the reverse by going on to win the Cheltenham equivalent in 2017.

Dual Champion Chase/Celebration Chase Winners

Horse Trainer Champion Chase Win(s) Celebration Chase Win(s)
Altior Nicky Henderson 2018, 2019 2017, 2018, 2019
Sprinter Sacre Nicky Henderson 2013, 2016 2016
Special Tiara Gary Moore 2017 2015
Sire De Grugy Gary Moore 2014 2013, 2014
Edredon Bleu Henrietta Knight 2000 2001

High Class Winners for a High Class Race

The presence of Champion Chase contenders who line up at Sandown every year suggests that it takes a high class performer to win this 1m7½f race. That is borne out by several trends including the fact that every previous winner was sent off at odds of 9/1 or shorter. I’m So Lucky was the latest of three 9/1 winners back in 2010. His win was one of just two from 2007 to 2019 which did not come from a horse in the top three of the betting.

Chart Showing the Start Prices of Celebration Chase Winners Between 2001 and 2019

Another sign of the quality of the race is seen by the list of trainers to have saddled a winner of the Celebration Chase. Henrietta Knight won the first edition and has since been joined by other hugely successful trainers such as Paul Nicholls (five wins as of 2019), Nicky Henderson (also five wins) and Gary Moore, who trained Sire De Grugy for his two wins. High class jockeys have also won this. Tony McCoy became the first to win three times on French Opera in 2011. He has now been surpassed by Nico de Boinville with four wins, once on Sprinter Sacre and three times on Altior.

The mighty and much-loved Sprinter Sacre became one of just two 10-year-olds to win the Celebration Chase following Cenkos’ second win in 2004. Eight-year-olds edge it compared to other age groups with punters generally well served by supporting horses aged between seven and nine (Sanctuaire and Well Chief are the only six-year-old winners).

Chart Showing the Ages of Celebration Chase Chase Winners Between 2001 and 2019

Other Races of Note at Sandown

  • bet365 Celebration Chase
  • bet365 Gold Cup
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