The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (formerly RSA Chase) has gone through a number of guises in recent years, but the race has stayed the same. The three-mile novice chasing championship on the Old Course is probably the most celebrated of the novice races due to its similarity to the Gold Cup. GG’s experts and tipsters will be previewing the race in fine detail to try and help you find that future superstar here.
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Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Bookmaker Odds – Race 2, Wednesday 12th March 2:10
The 2025 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase will give us a good idea about some future Gold Cup contenders. The 2024 field is outlined below.
Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase (Grade 1) (Registered As The Broadway Novices’ Chase) (GBB Race)
All About The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Trophy in 2025
The Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase offers future staying chasers a perfect Grade 1 stepping stone to their future.
Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase Overlooked Outsiders
Some horses may well be overlooked up against any favourites in the field. We will pick them out, so you can cheer them on for a big run.
Qualifications/Trends
The extra distance entitles five-year-olds to a 2lb allowance from their elders, although none have taken part since 2015. Otherwise, all of the runners will be in their first season over fences, or would not have won over fences prior to the season’s start.
As the Ballymore is dominated by six-year-olds so the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is by seven-year-olds. This fits with the general progression of National Hunt horses at this sort of trip from novice hurdlers to novice chasers and 16 of the 21 runnings since the turn of the century have gone the way of that year group.
Only one horse in that time has been aged five, Star de Mohaison in 2006, so the 2lb allowance does very little to guarantee success. However, the emphasis on novice status has also ensured that there’s only one winner aged into double figures: Birthlaw in 1946.
The Albert Bartlett has been less successful as a trial for this in recent renewals, although Monkfish reasserted its authority a year ago. That said, every winner between 2010 and 2016 had run in the three-mile novice hurdle the year prior, with Weapon’s Amnesty, Bobs Worth and Lord Windermere having won it. Similarly, the runners-up in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase between 2018 and 2020 had also run in the previous year’s Albert Bartlett.
Meanwhile, if you want to look for value at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival, it’s probably best to avoid this race. Only one winner has been priced at bigger than 10/1 in the last ten years.
Prize Money in 2025
Around £178,000 was up for grabs a year ago and a little over £102,000 went to Fact To File’s connections.
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.
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 |