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Champion Bumper: Past Winners, Stats & History

Cheltenham Festival
Course:
Cheltenham
Old Course
Grade:
Grade 1
Length:
2m ½f
Last Winner:
Facile Vega @ 15/8
Prize Money:
£80,000 (2022)

We have something a little different for the Day 2 finale with not a hurdle or fence in sight in the concluding bumper.

The Champion Bumper is a National Hunt flat race which was first run in 1992, and is the final race run at The Festival run over the Old Course.

Winners of this that have gone on to have stellar careers over obstacles include Cue Card and Florida Pearl.

Champion Bumper Course Map (Old Course)

Cheltenham Old Course Map

Champion Bumper Past Winners

Year Winner SP Trainer Jockey
2022 Facile Vega 15/8 Willie Mullins Patrick Mullins
2021 Sir Gerhard 85/40 Willie Mullins Rachael Blackmore
2020 Ferny Hollow 11/1 Willie Mullins Paul Townend
2019 Envoi Allen 2/1 Gordon Elliott Jamie Codd
2018 Relegate 25/1 Willie Mullins Katie Walsh
2017 Fayonagh 7/1 Gordon Elliott Jamie Codd
2016 Ballyandy 5/1 Nigel Twiston-Davies Sam Twiston-Davies
2015 Moon Racer 9/2 David Pipe Tom Scudamore
2014 Silver Concorde 16/1 Dermot Weld Robbie McNamara
2013 Briar Hill 25/1 Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2012 Champagne Fever 16/1 Willie Mullins Patrick Mullins
2011 Cheltenian 14/1 Phillip Hobbs Richard Johnson
2010 Cue Card 40/1 Colin Tizzard Joe Tizzard
2009 Dunguib 9/2 Philip Fenton Brian O'Connell
2008 Cousin Vinny 12/1 Willie Mullins Patrick Mullins
2007 Cork All Star 11/2 Jessica Harrington Barry geraghty
2006 Hairy Molly 33/1 Joseph Crowley Paul Carberry
2005 Missed That 7/2 Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2004 Total Enjoyment 7/1 Tom Cooper Jim Culloty
2003 Liberman 2/1 Martin Pipe Tony McCoy

About the Champion Bumper: The Festival Flat Race

Horse Race Running Bend

The Cheltenham Festival is often referred to as the number one jumps racing meeting in the world. That isn’t quite technically correct though. Cheltenham is a National Hunt meeting and National Hunt racing contains a number of different disciplines, not all of which involve jumping.

The Champion Bumper is one such example. This Grade 1 is the only race across the four days at Cheltenham not to include either hurdles or fences. Run over a distance of two miles and half a furlong, the Champion Bumper is open only to horses aged between four and six years of age and has been the breeding ground for many stars of the future.

NHF Used to Launch Cheltenham Success

Although the Champion Bumper is occasionally won by horses who usually compete on the flat, the majority of the competitors will go on to run over hurdles the following season. Despite being a relatively new addition to the Cheltenham Festival – it was first introduced in 1992 – the Champion Bumper has already produced winners including Cue Card, Champagne Fever and Envoi Allen who went on to have a host of Grade level successes between them over both hurdles and fences.

Chart Showing the Highest Earning Cheltenham Champion Bumper Winners Between 1992 and 2022

The lack of any obstacles means that there is always a caveat when assessing the form from the Champion Bumper. That said, the winner almost always features prominently in ante post betting for the big novice hurdles at the following season’s Festival.

The most successful horses to emerge out of the Champion Bumper have taken any number of different routes during the rest of their careers over the years and there are similarly a number of different routes towards the race that brings the second day of the Cheltenham Festival to a close.

Look To Irish NHF Races For Pointers

Ireland Flag on Grass

There are a lot of flat races in both Britain and Ireland in the first half of the National Hunt season which makes assessing the form quite difficult. The Irish trials are always a good place to start though as Irish trainers have an excellent record in the Champion Bumper.

Another reason for the dominance of Irish trainers is the calibre of Point-to-Point racing in Ireland. It’s commonplace for horses with a good performance or two in Point-to-Points before racing under rules to be towards the top of the betting market for the Champion Bumper.

On the betting, the odds with the bookmakers are not quite the helpful guide that they are for other races at Cheltenham. Favourites have only a modest record at best whereas longer odds horses challenge come the closing stages with regularity so this is a race that’s tailor made for each way betting.

It is also worth noting that it takes a certain amount of experience for a horse to win the Champion Bumper. On only three occasions have we seen four year old winners in the history of the race, one of whom was Cue Card who is arguably the highest calibre Champion Bumper winner of them all.

Chart Showing the Ages of the Champion Bumper Winners Between 1992 and 2022

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