Mares’ Hurdle Betting Odds 2025
The Mares’ Hurdle is a Grade 1 race restricted to mares aged four and upwards over two and a half miles at the Cheltenham Festival and takes place on Tuesday.
Latest Mares’ Hurdle Betting Odds
The Mares’ Hurdle 2025 is still many months away, and so odds only reflect distance chances of victory. Defending champion Lossiemouth was reverted to this race from the Champion Hurdle late on in 2025 and may do so again.
Betting on the Mares’ Hurdle
Originally known as the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle, Trainer Willie Mullins has enjoyed a monopoly of this race with eight consecutive victories from 2009 to 2016. He has now won the last two renewals through Lossiemouth too.
Inaugural winner Whiteoak (2008) remains the longest priced winner in the short history of the race at 20-1 after Marie’s Rock returned a surprise winner at 18-1 in 2022. The latter was only the third British-trained winner in all. Quevega started favourite for all six of her victories but Vroum Vroum Mag (2016) has been only winning favourite since.
There were notable setbacks for punters with the last hurdle falls of heavily-backed Annie Power (2015) and Benie Des Dieux (2019). Annie Power’s fall was estimated to have saved the bookmakers a £50 million payout after the stable had already won with three well-backed favourites. Since Quevega’s final victory at the age of ten in 2014, six seven-year-olds have won, making them the most successful age group.
Mares’ Hurdle News
The Mares’ Hurdle may be due for changes ahead of the 2026 Cheltenham Festival. These will be reported here.