Royal & SunAlliance Chase

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The Royal & SunAlliance Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above novices. It is run over a distance of 3 miles 110 yards (4,929 m) on the Old Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are nineteen fences to be jumped in the race.

The race takes its name from its sponsors, the insurance company Royal & SunAlliance. The sponsorship dates back to 1974 - prior to the merger of Royal Insurance and Sun Alliance in 1996, the race was known as the Sun Alliance Chase. The only previous sponsor of the race was The Tote (the Totalisator Champion Novice Chase, 1964-1973), before which the race was called the Broadway Novices' Chase.

[edit] Winners

  • Amateur jockeys indicated by "Mr".
  • Separate divisions of the race indicated by (1) and (2).
Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
1946 Birthlaw 11 Ted Vinall Tommy Rayson
1947 no race 1947 *
1948 (1) Blakely Grove 7 Joe Maguire Ivor Anthony
1948 (2) Mountain Prince 9 Bryan Marshall Fulke Walwyn
1949 (1) Glen Fire 6 Mr J. Spencer Syd Mercer
1949 (2) Comeragh 8 D. Kelly Noel Furlong
1950 (1) Manicou 5 Lord Mildmay Peter Cazalet
1950 (2) Arctic Gold 5 Glen Kelly Gerald Balding
1951 On View 8 Bryan Marshall Fulke Walwyn
1952 Good and Plenty 8 Jimmy Power Jack Fawcus
1953 Coneyburrow 7 Pat Taaffe Joe Osbourne
1954 Glenbeigh 8 Dave Dick Fulke Walwyn
1955 Great Eliza 7 B. Cooper Danny Morgan
1956 Polar Flight 6 Tommy Cusack George Spann
1957 Mandarin 6 Michael Scudamore Fulke Walwyn
1958 Just Awake 6 Arthur Freeman Peter Cazalet
1959 Mac Joy 7 Arthur Freeman Ken Bailey
1960 Solfen 8 Pat Taaffe Willie O'Grady
1961 Grallagh Cnoc 7 Pat Taaffe Joe Osbourne
1962 Caduval 7 Laurie Morgan Bogden Lubecki
1963 Arkle 6 Pat Taaffe Tom Dreaper
1964 Buona Notte 7 Johnnie Haine Bob Turnell
1965 Arkloin 6 Liam McLoughlin Tom Dreaper
1966 Different Class 6 David Mould Peter Cazalet
1967 Border Jet 7 Josh Gifford Ryan Price
1968 Herring Gull 6 Joe Crowley Paddy Mullins
1969 Spanish Steps 6 John Cook Edward Courage
1970 Proud Tarquin 7 Pat Taaffe Tom Dreaper
1971 Tantalum 7 David Nicholson Michael Pope
1972 Clever Scot 7 David Mould Harry Thomson Jones
1973 Killiney 7 Richard Pitman Fred Winter
1974 Ten Up 7 Tommy Carberry Jim Dreaper
1975 Pengrail 7 John Francome Fred Winter
1976 Tied Cottage 8 Tommy Carberry Dan Moore
1977 Gay Spartan 6 Michael Dickinson Tony Dickinson
1978 Sweet Joe 6 Steve Smith Eccles Harry Thomson Jones
1979 Master Smudge 7 Richard Hoare Arthur Barrow
1980 Lacson 8 Steve Knight Bob Hawker
1981 Lesley Ann 7 Colin Brown David Elsworth
1982 Brown Chamberlin 7 John Francome Fred Winter
1983 Canny Danny 7 Niall Madden Jimmy FitzGerald
1984 A Kinsman 8 Geordie Dun John Brockbank
1985 Antarctic Bay 9 Frank Berry Pat Hughes
1986 Cross Master 9 Reg Crank Tom Bill
1987 Kildimo 7 Graham Bradley Toby Balding
1988 The West Awake 7 Simon Sherwood Oliver Sherwood
1989 Envopak Token 8 Peter Hobbs Josh Gifford
1990 Garrison Savannah 7 Ben de Haan Jenny Pitman
1991 Rolling Ball 8 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe
1992 Miinnehoma 9 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe
1993 Young Hustler 6 Peter Scudamore Nigel Twiston-Davies
1994 Monsieur Le Cure 8 Peter Niven John Edwards
1995 Brief Gale 8 Philip Hide Josh Gifford
1996 Nahthen Lad 7 Warren Marston Jenny Pitman
1997 Hanakham 8 Richard Dunwoody Ron Hodges
1998 Florida Pearl 6 Richard Dunwoody Willie Mullins
1999 Looks Like Trouble 7 Paul Carberry Noel Chance
2000 Lord Noelie 7 Jim Culloty Henrietta Knight
2001 no race 2001 *
2002 Hussard Collonges 7 Russ Garritty Peter Beaumont
2003 One Knight 7 Richard Johnson Philip Hobbs
2004 Rule Supreme 8 David Casey Willie Mullins
2005 Trabolgan 7 Mick Fitzgerald Nicky Henderson
2006 Star de Mohaison 5 Barry Geraghty Paul Nicholls
2007 Denman 7 Ruby Walsh Paul Nicholls
2008 Albertas Run 7 Tony McCoy Jonjo O'Neill

* The 1947 race was cancelled because of snow and frost.
* The 2001 race was cancelled because of the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth crisis.

[edit] Notes

  • Arkle, Ten Up, Master Smudge, Garrison Savannah, Looks Like Trouble and Denman all subsequently won the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Master Smudge was awarded victory in the Gold Cup after Tied Cottage was disqualified for failing a drug test.
  • Winners to be placed in the Gold Cup include Spanish Steps, Tied Cottage, Brown Chamberlin, Young Hustler and Florida Pearl.
  • 1992 - The winner Miinnehoma, owned by Freddie Starr, subsequently won the Grand National in 1994.
  • 1996 - The runner-up Mr Mulligan won the following year's Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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