Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Betting Tips – Expert Predictions

The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is the second Grade 1 to take place on day 2 of the Cheltenham Festival. Run over a trip of 3m 1f, the Brown Advisory will be run at 2.00pm on Wednesday 11 March at the 2026 Cheltenham Festival.

Our team of tipsters, which includes Andrew Mount and Matty Sutcliffe will provide their Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase best bets nearer the off…

Matty Sutcliffe’s Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Tips

The Brits can lead home the 16-runner field in the Brown Advisory with Wendigo says Matty Sutcliffe. The strong stayer is the only prominent member of the market to have won over 3m.

Andrew Mount’s Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Tips

Andrew is also siding with Jamie Snowden’s Wendigo. He believes the Cheltenham course and distance will suit ideally and has strong form to mix it with the leading Irish contenders.

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Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Bookmaker Odds – Race 2, Wednesday 11th March 2:00

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All About The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Trophy in 2026

The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase offers future staying chasers a perfect Grade 1 stepping stone to their future.

The 2026 renewal will see a hugely competitive line up and Final Demand will be a leading contender for Willie Mullins. The Big Westerner is a top class staying novice chaser and is set to line up, as are the likes of Western Fold, Wendigo and Kaid d’Authie, who shocked Final Demand when the pair clashed at the Dublin Racing Festival. They will now be joined by Romeo Coolio, who steps up in trip.

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Qualifications/Trends

We pick out some of the key trends for the 2026 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase:

• The last 10 winners have been aged 7 or 8
• 5 of the last 10 winners have been favourite
• 5 of the last 10 winners have been trained in UK, 5 have been trained in Ireland
• 4 of the last 10 winners have been rated over 155

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Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase History

Another race that was briefly split into two parts in the post-war years, the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase was sponsored by Royal & SunAlliance for 46 years between 1974 and 2020. To many fans “The RSA” is still an unshakeable nickname.

In the pre-RSA days two horses stand out among the winners’ board. Mandarin won this race an enormous five years before he took the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1962, the longest gap between Festival victories. A year later, Arkle arrived on the scene, his win in this race preceding his hat-trick of Gold Cups between 1964-66.

Since Arkle, there have been seven horses who have landed the Gold Cup subsequently. This is strikingly low given the correlation of races, but also hints at the competitiveness of the Cheltenham Festival year on year. 

Those seven were Ten Up, who won the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase in 1974, Master Smudge (1979), Garrison Savannah (1990), Looks Like Trouble (1999), Denman (2007), Bobs Worth (2012) and Lord Windermere (2013). All of them took the Gold Cup one year after their success, but none of them did so again. A case study into the peaks of chasers perhaps.

That’s not to dismiss some other fantastic names on the roll of honour. Spanish Steps was famous for chasing Red Rum’s saddlecloth round Aintree, but was a brilliant horse in his own right, while Miinnehoma won the National itself two years after he won his RSA Chase.

Florida Pearl carried the hopes of Ireland round the Gold Cup course for many years after his 1998 success here, while Albertas Run would find his home over a shorter trip, landing two Ryanair Chases after winning this in 2008.

In more recent seasons, though no horse has gone on to win the Gold Cup, the race has witnessed some extremely dramatic climaxes of its own right, with Might Bite’s wayward antics and Champ’s last gasp heroics sending the Cheltenham crowd into raptures. Even amongst that, Willie Mullins has managed to win the last renewals with odds-on favourite Fact To File and outsider Lecky Watson.

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Winners since 2000

Year	Horse	Jockey/Trainer	Odds
2000	Lord Noelie	J:Jim Culloty T:Henrietta Knight	9/2
2001	VOID	J:N/A T:N/A	VOID
2002	Hussard Collonges	J:Russ Garritty T:Peter Beaumont	33/1
2003	One Knight	J:Richard Johnson T:Philip Hobbs	15/2
2004	Rule Supreme	J:David Casey T:Willie Mullins	25/1
2005	Trabolgan	J:Mick Fitzgerald T:Nicky Henderson	5/1
2006	Star de Mohaison	J:Barry Geraghty T:Paul Nicholls	14/1
2007	Denman	J:Ruby Walsh T:Paul Nicholls	6/5F
2008	Albertas Run	J:Tony McCoy T:Jonjo O’Neill	4/1F
2009	Cooldine	J:Ruby Walsh T:Willie Mullins	9/4F
2010	Weapon’s Amnesty	J:Davy Russell T:Charles Byrnes	10/1
2011	Bostons Angel	J:Robbie Power T:Jessica Harrington	16/1
2012	Bobs Worth	J:Barry Geraghty T:Nicky Henderson	9/2
2013	Lord Windermere	J:Davy Russell T:Jim Culloty	8/1
2014	O’Faolain’s Boy	J:Barry Geraghty T:Rebecca Curtis	12/1
2015	Don Poli	J:Bryan Cooper T:Willie Mullins	13/8F
2016	Blaklion	J:Ryan Hatch T:Nigel Twiston-Davies	8/1
2017	Might Bite	J:Nico de Boinville T:Nicky Henderson	7/2
2018	Presenting Percy	J:Davy Russell T:Pat Kelly	5/2F
2019	Topofthegame	J:Harry Cobden T:Paul Nicholls	4/1
2020	Champ	J:Barry Geraghty T:Nicky Henderson	4/1
2021	Monkfish	J:Paul Townend T:Willie Mullins	1/4F
2022	L’Homme Presse	J:Charlie Deutsch T:Venetia Williams	9/4F
2023	The Real Whacker	J:Sam Twiston-Davies T:Patrick Neville	8/1
2024	Fact To File	J:Mark Walsh T:Willie Mullins	8/13F
2025	Lecky Watson	J:Sean O’Keeffe T:Willie Mullins	20/1

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Cheltenham Festival Day 2 Racing Schedule

Time	Race
1:20	Turners Novices’ Hurdle	Read Tip
2:00	Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase	Read Tip
2:40	Coral Cup	Read Tip
3:20	Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase	Read Tip
4:00	Queen Mother Champion Chase	Read Tip
4:40	Johnny Henderson Grand Annual	Read Tip
5:20	Champion Bumper	Read Tip

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