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Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Chase – Gold Cup Day

4 50pmThe Liberthine Mares’ Chase (sponsored name Mrs Paddy Power Mares’ Chase) is the newest race at the Cheltenham Festival, established in 2021.  The race has been added to Gold Cup Day and replaces the Novices’ Champion Chase that was held on Champion Day.  As a result of this the Fred Winter Juvenile Hurdle moves from Ladies day to the vacant slot on day one and the Grand Annual Chase moves from the last day to Ladies day to fill in all the gaps.

The Mare’s Chase is run over the same distance as the race it replaces, 2 miles and 4 furlongs.  The main reason this race has been created is to increase the number of elite races for female horses to help encourage owners to buy young fillies’ and thereby supporting the breeding industry as a whole.  The Novices’ Chase was selected for removal as it is felt there are already enough opportunities for novices’ at Cheltenham.

Being a Grade 2 race and replacing a Listed race also means it increases the number of Grade races at the festival as whole helping to raise the prestige of the meeting further.  Being a new race there is no history to talk about yet, however, below we look at what we might expect from this race as it beds in over the coming years.

Race Facts

Course Grade Fences Distance (m) Winner / Purse
New Course Grade 2 TBC 2m 4f 56y (4075m) TBC / TBC

Being a Gold Cup Day races means the Mares’ Chase is run on the new course.  The number of fences to be jumped has yet to be announced.  It is expected to be around 10.

The race is run over two and a half miles and is Grade 2.

Race Trivia

new cheltenham festival raceThere is not a lot to say about this race other than the fact it is new and designed to increase the number of mares’ races at the festival.  It will be the first mares’ race on Gold Cup Day and sits alongside the Mares’ Hurdle on Champion Day (Grade 1) and the Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle on St Patrick’s Thursday (Grade 2).

The registered name of the race is the Liberthine Mares’ Chase named after the high class mare owned by Robert Waley-Cohen, the Cheltenham course chairman from 2011-2019.

Scheduled as the second to last race of the Festival it is expected that this race will draw the last of the crowds before people start to filter out before the last handicap race of the day.  There is a lot of expectation on this race as the last grade race to be run at the most famous jump race meeting in the world.

CBO Rating | TBC

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It would be unfair of us to rate a race before it has even been run.  Check back here after the 2021 Festival where we will look at how the race went and how much it was enjoyed by punters, racegoers and the industry as a whole.

So far the race has been well received by trainers and jockeys in horse racing.  You can read more about this on our news page about the new mares’ race.

Conclusion

horses-taking-the-bend-in-a-raceThere are those that will miss the Grand Annual Chase on Gold Cup Day.  It is the oldest race at the festival founded in 1834 and many saw it’s place as second to last on the final day as fitting for it’s status.

It is ironic then that the oldest races still going at the Festival is replaced by the newest race.  It’s not so bad though as the Annual Chase moves to Ladies Day and is still a firm fixture of the festival.

Change is often a good thing and the addition of the new mares’ race is hoped to spice up the meeting that has changed little since a fourth day was added in 2005.

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