Cesarewitch Stakes Betting Tips, Winners & History

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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.

Cesarewitch Stakes Betting Tips

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

Mark Johnston leads the way amongst the trainers on show this year, with the Middleham handler having registered three previous wins in the race. Johnston sends Mondain and Summer Moon into battle this time around, and should either prove successful, he will move level with William Day and Mathew Dawson for the all-time lead amongst the trainers.

Those drawn middle to high have held sway here in recent editions, with each of the past five winners having emerged from a double figure stall. Another trend worth noting is the fact that eight of the past 10 winners have been saddled with 9st2lb or less on the day.

This has been a mightily tough race to call in recent years, with the past decade alone seeing winners return SP’s of 25/1 twice, 50/1 and 66/1 twice. Only one market leader has prevailed over this period, handing favourite backers a level stakes loss of £4.00

Great White Shark – 8/1

This may be a flat contest, but with a big pot to play for, and the emphasis being firmly placed upon stamina, it is no real surprise that the race regularly attracts the attention of the top National Hunt trainers from both sides of the Irish Sea. It is in fact multiple Irish Champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins who has saddled the winner in each of the past two seasons. And this year the Closutton maestro relies upon the six year old, Great White Shark.

A typically successful dual purpose performer for the yard, this son of Le Havre has won three times over hurdles and three times on the level. And with the latest of those hurdling successes coming over 2m7f, he can be more trusted than most to see out this trip. Last sighted on the flat when failing to defend his crown in the Connacht Hotel Handicap at the Galway Festival, he still ran with great credit that day to go down by only two and a quarter lengths at the line, despite having to come wide around the whole field in order to mount his challenge. He’s two pounds lower here than he was for that, and with the winner, Princess Zoe, having since gone on to score in the Group 1 Prix Du Cadran at Longchamp, the form looks particularly solid.

Coltrane – 8/1

Leading the charge for the home team is the Andrew Balding runner, Coltrane. Nicely bred, being by Mastercraftsman and out of a Montjeu mare, this three year old colt will be making just the sixth start of his career here and as such, would be open to considerably more improvement than the vast majority of his rivals.

Running green as grass on his debut at Kempton, he was then disappointing when managing only fourth place – despite being a well backed favourite – in his second start at that same venue. It does perhaps seem that the artificial surface simply wasn’t to his liking though, as he has looked a completely different horse since being switched to turf.

Three starts on grass have yielded three wins, and three pretty easy wins at that. The most recent of those successes coming when being stepped up to 1m6f for the first time in the Melrose Handicap at York. The handicapper has taken a pretty dim view of that win in hiking him up 11 pounds ahead of this assignment, but the manner in which he was pulling clear at the line suggests there may be more to come over the additional four furlongs of this event.

Mukha Magic – 80/1

As the recent results have shown, it can often pay to look beyond the most obvious contenders in this tricky event. One horse who we wouldn’t be at all surprised to see go well at a very big price is the Gay Kelleway-trained Mukha Magic.

This one admittedly isn’t the most consistent of performers – hence the price – but does look the type to be well suited by the challenge of this race. The four year old will actually be having only his second start at a trip of further than 2m, and if judged on his previous attempt he would appear to boast sound each way claims. That effort came when staying on nicely up the rail in the 2m5½f Queen Alexandra Stakes at the Royal meeting, and whilst he is down three and a half furlongs in trip here, the likely testing ground should help to bring his stamina into play. He also looks very interesting from a handicapping perspective on that Ascot outing.

Having been dropped a pound by the assessor since that effort, and with seven-pound claimer Callum Hutchinson taking over in the saddle, he is effectively eight pounds lower than for a two and a half length defeat to the talented Who Dares Wins. He did run at Southwell earlier in the week, but has won twice on the back of very quick turnarounds in the past and could just outrun those huge odds.