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Cotswold Chase: Past Winners, Stats & History

Festival Trials Day
Course:
Cheltenham
New Course
Grade:
Grade 2
Length:
3m 1½f
Last Winner:
Ahoy Senor @ 13/2
Prize Money:
£120,000 (2023)

Usually forming a major part of the highly valued Trials Day at Cheltenham is the 41-year-old Cotswold Chase, though the 2021 edition was run at Sandown on Contenders Day due to the cancellation of the Cheltenham meeting.

It’s a race that often includes Cheltenham Gold Cup hopefuls as well as Grand National winners in the form of Neptune Collonges and Many Clouds in recent years.

The first running of this race was in 1980 and it is one of the last big three mile chases before the March Festival.

Cotswold Chase Course Map (New Course)

Cheltenham New Course Map

Cotswold Chase Past Winners

Year Winner SP Trainer Jockey
2023 Ahoy Senor 13/2 Lucinda Russell Derek Fox
2022 Chantry House 5/6 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2021* Native River 13/2 Colin Tizzard Richard Johnson
2020 Santini 13/8 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2019 Frodon 9/4 Paul Nicholls Bryony Frost
2018 Definitly Red 7/1 Brian Ellison Danny Cook
2017 Many Clouds 8/1 Oliver Sherwood Leighton Aspell
2016 Smad Place 9/2 Alan King Richard Johnson
2015 Many Clouds 4/1 Oliver Sherwood Leighton Aspell
2014 The Giant Bolster 6/1 David Bridgewater Tom Scuadmore
2013 Cape Tribulation 7/1 Malcom Jefferson Denis O'Regan
2012 Midnight Chase 11/2 Neil Mulholland Dougie Costello
2011 Neptune Collonges 11/2 Paul Nicholls Tony McCoy
2010 Taranis 16/1 Paul Nicholls Nick Scholfield
2009 Joe Lively 11/1 Colin Tizzard Joe Tizzard
2008 Knowhere 16/1 Nigel Twiston-Davies Paddy Brennan
2007 Exotic Dancer 6/1 Jonjo O'Neill Tony McCoy
2006 See You Sometime 18/1 Seamus Mullins Andrew Thornton
2005 Grey Abbey 100/30 Howard Johnson Graham Lee
2004 Jair du Cochet 11/4 Guillaume Macaire Jacques Ricou

*2021 race run at Sandown on Contenders Day.

About the Cotswold Chase: Gold Cup Pointers

Panorama of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire
Kumweni, flickr

The countdown to the season-defining Cheltenham Festival is well and truly on by the time we reach the tail end of January each year, with trials season in full swing. When it comes to the preliminaries to March’s main course, there are few more significant than those staged at Cheltenham racecourse during January’s official Trials Day. A wide variety of runners are catered for on the card, including those whose main objective is a tilt at the big one of the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Taking place over a trip of 3m1f 156yards and held on the New Course, the Grade 2 Cotswold Chase acts as the ideal testing ground for potential Gold Cup candidates each year. Open to chasers aged five years and older, the race features 21 fences in all, prior to the ultimate lung-busting test that is the famed Cheltenham Hill.

First run in 1980, the race takes its officially registered title from the range of rolling hills in the region. It has however also featured the name of various sponsors in its title over the years, with the Tote, Timeform, wine company Bibendum and Betbright all having previously lent their support to the contest.

Pointing the Way to Future Success

Touted as one of the season’s big trials for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the race hasn’t proven to be the most prolific in highlighting the winner of March’s main event, but four runners have backed up a win here with success in the classiest chase of them all, Little Owl (1981), Master Oats (1995), See More Business (1998) and Looks Like Trouble (2000) being the quartet to achieve the famous double. Native River is also a winner of both races however his 2021 Cotswold Chase win came three years after landing the Gold Cup in 2018.

The 2020 Cotswold Chase winner Santini was the latest horse to come close to doing the same season double, finishing second by just a neck in the following Gold Cup to Al Boum Photo.

Dual Cotswold Chase & Gold Cup Winners

Horse Trainer Cotswold Chase Win(s) Gold Cup Win
Native River Colin Tizzard 2021 2018
Looks Like Trouble Noel Chance 2000 2000
See More Business Paul Nicholls 1998 & 2001 1999
Master Oats Kim Bailey 1995 1995
Little Owl Peter Easterby 1981 1981

Having returned to win this again in 2001, in addition to claiming two King George VI Chases, there is a decent argument that it is See More Business who should go down as the greatest winner in the history of the race.

Another dual winner of this race Many Clouds (2015, 2017) also landed the most famous chase in the world when coming home in front in the 2015 Grand National, with 2011 victor Neptune Collonges achieving the same feat when getting up close to home in the 2012 edition of the Aintree showpiece. 1997 winner One Man meanwhile proved equally proficient when stepped down in trip to claim Queen Mother Champion Chase glory in 1998.

Seven to Nine the Key Ages

Given how prolific a combination they were, it is perhaps surprising that Martin Pipe and Tony McCoy registered just the one success in this race. It was however a significant one, with 1999 victor Cyfor Malta being the youngest winner in the history of the race at six years of age.

Chart showing the Ages of Cotswold Chase Winners Between 1980 and 2022

At the other end of the spectrum, See More Business (2001), Grey Abbey (2005), See You Sometime (2006) and Native River (2021) all landed the prize at the grand old age of 11 years old. Overall though the race was been dominated by runners aged between seven and nine years old, with that bracket accounting 80% of the winners up to and including the 2022 renewal.

Nicholls the Name to Follow

This has been a pretty tough race for trainers to rack up much of a sequence over the years, with only three handlers managing to claim top spot on more than one occasion. Lesley Ann and Combs Ditch propelled David Elsworth to back to back success in 1982 and 1983, whilst the aforementioned Many Clouds accounted for both of Oliver Sherwood’s trips to the winners enclosure. Forty years separated Nicky Henderson’s first two wins in this race. Having won the very first Costwold Chase in 1980, it wasn’t until the 2020 running that Henderson added to his tally. When it comes to training performance in this race though, there is one man who stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Chart Showing the Cotswold Chase's Most Successful Trainers Between 1980 and 2022

Now needing more than the digits on two hands in order to count his British Champion Trainer titles, Paul Nicholls has racked up an impressive five wins in this event, and given his proficiency with the staying chaser, it would take a brave man to bet against him building further on this total in the years to come.

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